Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2298
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Portland (PDX) · scheduled 7:25 PM – 9:27 PM
How AA2298 performs
601 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on DFW → PDX, AA2298 averaged about 4 operations a week (601 in 1,004 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2298 arrived on time 62.5% of the time, against 67.9% for all DFW → PDX flights, so this departure is 5.4 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 4.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 601 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2298 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA2298 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2298 | 62.5% | 2.66% | 6 min | 13.9% | 601 |
| American Airlines on DFW → PDX | 66.5% | 1.98% | 1 min | 12.1% | 5,853 |
| All DFW → PDX flights | 67.9% | 1.89% | 1 min | 11.2% | 7,559 |
AA2298 cancelled 16 of 601 operations (2.66%), above the 1.89% for DFW → PDX.
13.9% of AA2298’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 11.2% across DFW → PDX, 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 AA2298 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
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2298 on DFW → PDX. 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 AA2298 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2298 pushed back an average of 51 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 9 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into DFW: 539 of 586 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2298 | 27% | 71% | 22% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
75 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 AA2298’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA2298 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
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 PDX?
AA2298 pushes back an average of 27.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at PDX an average of 23.0 minutes late. The 4.2 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. Its 20.2 minutes on the taxiways at DFW is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at PDX, AA2298 spends 5.4 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 PDX 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 74,302 DFW departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 193,821 arrivals at PDX. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
AA2298 has one departure time, 7:25 PM, so this is what that hour at DFW is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 74,302 departures from DFW are scheduled in the 7 PM–8 PM hour over the period, against 989,065 across the whole day.
AA2298 is scheduled out of DFW at 7:25 PM, in the 7 PM–8 PM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 64.1% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.0 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 AA2298 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2298 also served these 9 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLT→FLL Charlotte to Fort Lauderdale | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 30 | — |
| FLL→CLT Fort Lauderdale to Charlotte | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 30 | — |
| DCA→JAX Washington to Jacksonville | July 2, 2023 – March 7, 2026 | 307 | 66.1% |
| CLT→ORD Charlotte to Chicago | January 7, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 36 | — |
| SLC→CLT Salt Lake City to Charlotte | November 2, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 48 | — |
| CLT→BNA Charlotte to Nashville | December 4–17, 2025 | 12 | — |
| CLT→SLC Charlotte to Salt Lake City | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 16 | — |
| LGA→ORD New York to Chicago | October 6, 2025 – November 1, 2025 | 23 | — |
| BOS→MIA Boston to Miami | May 7, 2024 – June 4, 2024 | 29 | — |
The figures above describe only DFW → PDX, the route AA2298 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
76 min late
against a median of 6 min late
AA2298 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 min late, but the worst tenth are 70 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 601 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2655 | American Airlines | 81.5% | 7 min early | 1,026 |
| AA2496 | American Airlines | 78.0% | 8 min early | 929 |
| AS303 | Alaska Airlines | 74.6% | 2 min early | 831 |
| AA2298 this flight | American Airlines | 62.5% | 6 min late | 601 |
Among all 4 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2298 has the lowest on-time rate, 19.0 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 601 records of AA2298 operating DFW → PDX, 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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