Flight number record
AA 2920
American Airlines · Chicago to Tampa
- Route
- ORD → TPA
- Departs
- 09:05
- Flights
- 287
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2920, check with American Airlines.
AA 2920 lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 55 minutes on average. That rests on 287 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
78.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 281 completed flights
Avg delay
54 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.09%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 287 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 2920 flies
AA 2920 flies ORD to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:05, used on 32 of 287 flights.
- Departs 09:0532 flights11.1%
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 09:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 2920 runs 5 points worse at 78.6%. 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 2920 next to ORD to TPA
Every carrier on ORD to TPA combined arrived on time 72.8% of the time across 3,174 flights, so AA 2920 is 6 points ahead of it. American flew 1,155 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2920thin sample | 287 | 78.6% | 54 min | 2.09% | B |
| All American Airlines on ORD–TPA | 1,155 | 67.8% | 72 min | 1.90% | C |
| All carriers on ORD–TPA | 3,174 | 72.8% | 81 min | 1.48% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2920 quarter by quarter
AA 2920 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 60.3%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 57 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights85.9%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights60.3%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights80.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.9%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
By weekday, AA 2920 did best on Tuesday at 92.5% on time and worst on Saturday at 63.4%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2920 runs when it is late
AA 2920 often beats the schedule: 98 of 281 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early98 flights34.9%
- Within 15 min123 flights43.8%
- 15–29 min late23 flights8.2%
- 30–59 min late18 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 281 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 59 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 18 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 19 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 TPA.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2920
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 February 2026, 4 hours 25 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.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2026 | 4 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 July 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 March 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 September 2025 | 2 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 December 2025 | 1 hour 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2920 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,261 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,261 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 3,261 delay minutes reported on AA 2920.
Cancellations sit at 2.09% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.8% 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 about 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,012 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 five other city pairs in the data, including TPA to ORD (87), SNA to DFW (44) and DFW to SNA (44), but none flew often enough under AA 2920 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to TPA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 287 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 2920
For a booking, read AA 2920 as 78.6% on time with 2.09% cancelled over 287 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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 ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.