Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2331
Cleveland (CLE) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 11:58 AM – 11:27 AM
How AA2331 performs
1,004 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
AA2331 arrived on time 80.2% of the time, against 75.3% for all CLE → DFW flights, so this departure is 4.9 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 4.3 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,004 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2331 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA2331 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2331 | 80.2% | 2.49% | -9 min | 6.3% | 1,004 |
| American Airlines on CLE → DFW | 75.9% | 2.19% | -6 min | 8.6% | 4,754 |
| All CLE → DFW flights | 75.3% | 2.22% | -6 min | 9.0% | 5,317 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why AA2331 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2331 on CLE → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA2331 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2331 pushed back an average of 28 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 6 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into CLE just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 818 of 979 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2331 | 26% | 39% | 14% |
| Network, same turn | 23% | 40% | 9% |
The schedule leaves a long gap on the ground, which gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours. How often AA2331’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA2331 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves CLE late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA2331 pushes back an average of 14.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 6.4 minutes late. The 7.8 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 15.7 minutes on the taxiways at CLE, 1.2 minutes longer than a typical CLE departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, AA2331 spends 14.4 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 DFW 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 DFW. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 7,349 departures from CLE scheduled in the clock hour AA2331 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DFW (961,642 flights), not just AA2331’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves CLE
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA2331 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 7,349 departures from CLE are scheduled in the 11 AM–12 PM hour over the period, against 126,883 across the whole day.
AA2331 is scheduled out of CLE at 11:58 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from CLE in that hour arrive on time 85.1% of the time against 80.9% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.2 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from CLE 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.
By day of week
Does AA2331 run worse on particular days?
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Saturday the least, a gap of 6.6 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AA2331 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORD→CID Chicago to Cedar Rapids | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
| DFW→CLE Dallas–Fort Worth to Cleveland | July 1, 2023 – April 6, 2026 | 343 | 87.7% |
| LGA→TPA New York to Tampa | October 11, 2025 – November 1, 2025 | 4 | — |
| MCO→PHL Orlando to Philadelphia | October 6–31, 2025 | 23 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA2331 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.
43 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 1,004 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2331 this flight | American Airlines | 80.2% | 9 min early | 1,004 |
| AA2336 | American Airlines | 60.5% | 4 min late | 674 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA2331 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 1,004 records of AA2331 operating CLE → DFW, 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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