Flight number record

AA 2896

American Airlines · Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: ORD → DFW
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 280
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2896, check with American Airlines.

AA 2896 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 280 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2896's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 268 completed flights

Avg delay

124 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.21%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

6.3%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 280 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

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Schedule

When AA 2896 flies

AA 2896 flies ORD to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 79 of 280 flights, with 06:10 (37 flights) and 06:04 (34 flights) next.

Departs 06:0079 flights28.2%
Departs 06:1037 flights13.2%
Departs 06:0434 flights12.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2896 runs 4 points worse at 85.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

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Against the route

AA 2896 next to ORD to DFW

Every carrier on ORD to DFW combined arrived on time 70.4% of the time across 7,111 flights, so AA 2896 is 15 points ahead of it. American flew 4,297 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 68.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

AA 2896 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2896thin sample	280	85.1%	124 min	3.21%	A−
All American Airlines on ORD–DFW	4,297	68.9%	89 min	3.16%	C−
All carriers on ORD–DFW	7,111	70.4%	84 min	2.69%	C
American Airlines, whole network	988,892	74.7%	85 min	2.14%	C

Across the year

AA 2896 quarter by quarter

AA 2896 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 91.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 63.6%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 70 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
Oct–Dec 202589 flights87.1%
Jan–Mar 202652 flights91.7%
Apr–Jun 202647 flights63.6%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2896 did best on Wednesday at 94.6% on time and worst on Monday at 73.7%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late AA 2896 runs when it is late

AA 2896 often beats the schedule: 110 of 268 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 40 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.

15+ min early110 flights41.0%
Within 15 min118 flights44.0%
15–29 min late15 flights5.6%
30–59 min late8 flights3.0%
1–2 hours late6 flights2.2%
2+ hours late11 flights4.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 268 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 33 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 10 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 17 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.

The worst days

Worst days for AA 2896

The latest arrival of the period was on 3 April 2026, 10 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of AA 2896 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
3 April 2026	10 hours 42 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
20 February 2026	9 hours 55 minutes	Carrier
22 December 2025	9 hours 30 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
4 April 2026	6 hours 56 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
19 June 2026	6 hours 1 minute	Extreme weather

Delay causes

Why AA 2896 runs late

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 4,968 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
45%
Carrier
34%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
6%

45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,968 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 4,968 delay minutes reported on AA 2896.

Cancellations run at 3.21%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 802 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including DFW to ORD (44), FLL to LGA (37) and LGA to FLL (37), but none flew often enough under AA 2896 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to DFW only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 280 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking AA 2896

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2896: 3.21% of its 280 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

A flight number here means American Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures