Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2235
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Denver (DEN) · scheduled 6:50 PM – 7:55 PM
How AA2235 performs
622 operations, November 2023 – July 2026.
AA2235 arrived on time 50.3% of the time, against 70.4% for all DFW → DEN flights — this specific departure is 20.1 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 15.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 622 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2235 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back — the refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA2235 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the DFW → DEN route as a whole — worse than 97% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
50.3% on time for this specific departure, against 70.4% for every DFW → DEN flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 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.
Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2235 | 50.3% | 2.89% | 14 min | 21.8% | 622 |
| American Airlines on DFW → DEN | 65.3% | 2.51% | 1 min | 12.8% | 9,374 |
| All DFW → DEN flights | 70.4% | 1.97% | -3 min | 11.4% | 18,864 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
Why AA2235 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, fueling — 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 AA2235 on DFW → DEN. A single late flight can carry more than one cause, and only delays of fifteen minutes or more are attributed at all.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DFW late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DEN?
AA2235 pushes back an average of 34.5 minutes late and arrives a further 2.0 minutes behind that. This departure loses ground between the two gates rather than recovering it, so a late pushback here tends to get worse on the way, not better. It spends 20.6 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 1.4 minutes longer than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DEN, AA2235 spends 9.4 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 DEN spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
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 DEN. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 59,301 departures from DFW scheduled in the clock hour AA2235 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DEN (963,027 flights), not just AA2235’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA2235 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 59,301 departures from DFW are scheduled in the 6 PM–7 PM hour over the period, against 961,718 across the whole day.
AA2235 is scheduled out of DFW at 6:50 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 64.2% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.9 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from DFW 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 · November 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA2235 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→LGA Dallas–Fort Worth to New York | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 30 | — |
| CLT→DCA Charlotte to Washington | February 14, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 4 | — |
| ATL→DFW Atlanta to Dallas–Fort Worth | February 12, 2026 – March 6, 2026 | 14 | — |
| ONT→PHX Ontario to Phoenix | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 35 | — |
| PHX→ONT Phoenix to Ontario | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 35 | — |
| LAX→PHL Los Angeles to Philadelphia | July 1, 2023 – January 5, 2026 | 322 | 90.9% |
| PHL→LAX Philadelphia to Los Angeles | August 15, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 82 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA2235 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
109 min late
against a median of 14 min late
AA2235 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 14 min late, but the worst tenth are 95 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 622 operations. Cancelled and diverted flights have no arrival time and are counted separately rather than as very late arrivals.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey — and not the same odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F92147 | Frontier Airlines | 84.6% | 10 min early | 824 |
| UA1380 | United Airlines | 83.4% | 11 min early | 738 |
| AA1523 | American Airlines | 82.0% | 10 min early | 640 |
| AA2357 | American Airlines | 79.0% | 7 min early | 735 |
| AA420 | American Airlines | 78.3% | 8 min early | 1,028 |
| F92631 | Frontier Airlines | 72.7% | 6 min early | 638 |
| UA2655 | United Airlines | 65.6% | 3 min late | 968 |
| AA1832 | American Airlines | 64.8% | 1 min late | 1,074 |
| AA2235 this flight | American Airlines | 50.3% | 14 min late | 622 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA2235 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.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 622 records of AA2235 operating DFW → DEN, 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 excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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