AA2159

AA2159 arrived on time 92.9% of the time, against 77.3% for all BOS → DCA flights, so this departure is 15.6 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 15.5 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 805 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2159 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 98% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

92.9% on time for this specific departure, against 77.4% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

AA2159 has cancelled 1.61% of its scheduled departures (13 of 805), against 2.85% for all BOS → DCA flights — this specific departure cancels 1.2 percentage points less often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about AA2159 specifically, not about the route it flies.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2159 on BOS → DCA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

AA2159 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.4 hours on the ground at BOS, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2159 pushed back an average of 0 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 0 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into BOS just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 750 of 793 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

AA2159 pushes back an average of 1.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at DCA an average of 6.8 minutes early. The 8.5 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 18.9 minutes on the taxiways at BOS, 1.8 minutes shorter than a typical BOS departure in the same hour.

On arrival at DCA, AA2159 spends 6.6 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 1.0 minutes shorter than a typical DCA arrival (7.6 min).

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached DCA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 36,667 departures from BOS scheduled in the clock hour AA2159 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DCA (435,126 flights), not just AA2159’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

AA2159 is scheduled out of BOS at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from BOS in that hour arrive on time 88.8% of the time against 77.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.6 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from BOS to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA2159 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA2159 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• B61555 BOS→DCA JetBlue on the same route, departs 8:00 AM, on time 81.0%
• B61855 BOS→DCA JetBlue on the same route, departs 12:00 PM, on time 75.6%
• B61055 BOS→DCA JetBlue on the same route, departs 1:00 PM, on time 82.0%