Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2108
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Phoenix (PHX) · scheduled 3:25 PM – 3:40 PM
How AA2108 performs
613 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on DFW → PHX, AA2108 averaged about 4 operations a week (613 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2108 arrived on time 66.1% of the time, against 71.0% for all DFW → PHX flights, so this departure is 4.9 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 613 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2108 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA2108 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2108 | 66.1% | 0.98% | 2 min | 12.4% | 613 |
| American Airlines on DFW → PHX | 71.1% | 1.76% | -1 min | 10.7% | 14,073 |
| All DFW → PHX flights | 71.0% | 1.72% | -1 min | 10.7% | 16,402 |
AA2108 cancelled 6 of 613 operations (0.98%), below the 1.72% for DFW → PHX.
12.4% of AA2108’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 10.7% across DFW → PHX, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA2108 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2108 on DFW → PHX. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA2108 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA2108 came in 15 or more minutes late on 19% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into DFW: 507 of 607 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| AA2108 | 19% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
71 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often AA2108’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DFW late, does that still matter by the time it reaches PHX?
AA2108 pushes back an average of 24.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at PHX an average of 20.1 minutes late. The 4.4 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 16.9 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 1.6 minutes shorter than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.
On arrival at PHX, AA2108 spends 8.0 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at PHX spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 46,742 DFW departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 613,261 arrivals at PHX. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
AA2108 has one departure time, 3:25 PM, so this is what that hour at DFW is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 46,742 departures from DFW are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 989,065 across the whole day.
AA2108 is scheduled out of DFW at 3:25 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 66.8% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 6.3 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from DFW, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA2108 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2108 also served these 13 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHX→DFW Phoenix to Dallas–Fort Worth | July 6, 2024 – May 20, 2026 | 74 | — |
| PHL→LAX Philadelphia to Los Angeles | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 30 | — |
| LGA→CLT New York to Charlotte | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 24 | — |
| PHL→ORD Philadelphia to Chicago | January 6, 2026 – February 9, 2026 | 21 | — |
| ORD→MCO Chicago to Orlando | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 19 | — |
| CLT→MIA Charlotte to Miami | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| DFW→PHL Dallas–Fort Worth to Philadelphia | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 30 | — |
| PHX→SJC Phoenix to San Jose | July 1, 2023 – November 3, 2024 | 228 | 75.9% |
| DFW→ELP Dallas–Fort Worth to El Paso | October 31, 2024 | 1 | — |
| LAS→LAX Las Vegas to Los Angeles | August 6, 2024 | 1 | — |
| CLT→LAX Charlotte to Los Angeles | June 5, 2024 – July 3, 2024 | 29 | — |
| FLL→ORD Fort Lauderdale to Chicago | April 4, 2024 – May 5, 2024 | 32 | — |
| ORD→FLL Chicago to Fort Lauderdale | April 4, 2024 – May 5, 2024 | 32 | — |
The figures above describe only DFW → PHX, the route AA2108 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
68 min late
against a median of 2 min late
AA2108 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 2 min late, but the worst tenth are 66 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 613 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA474 | American Airlines | 87.5% | 8 min early | 605 |
| AA520 | American Airlines | 78.0% | 1 min early | 804 |
| AA2108 this flight | American Airlines | 66.1% | 2 min late | 613 |
Among all 3 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2108 has the lowest on-time rate, 21.4 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 613 records of AA2108 operating DFW → PHX, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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