AA2346

Between its first and last recorded date on DFW → ORD, AA2346 averaged about 4 operations a week (624 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).

AA2346 arrived on time 66.3% of the time, against 72.7% for all DFW → ORD flights, so this departure is 6.4 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.1 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 624 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2346 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

AA2346 has cancelled 4.33% of its scheduled departures (27 of 624), against 2.00% for all DFW → ORD flights — this specific departure cancels 2.3 percentage points more 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 AA2346 specifically, not about the route it flies.

15.2% of AA2346’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 10.9% across DFW → ORD, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2346 on DFW → ORD. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean

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

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2346 pushed back an average of 49 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 12 minutes late.

Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into DFW: 524 of 597 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.

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

AA2346 pushes back an average of 31.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at ORD an average of 16.3 minutes late. The 15.4 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. Its 19.0 minutes on the taxiways at DFW is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at ORD, AA2346 spends 9.5 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 8.4 minutes shorter than a typical ORD arrival (18.0 min).

Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 52,068 DFW departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 985,848 arrivals at ORD. More on taxi time.

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

AA2346 is scheduled out of DFW at 8:59 PM, in the 8 PM–9 PM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 62.8% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.3 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 · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

The figures above describe only DFW → ORD, the route AA2346 flies now.

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

Among all 5 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2346 has the 4th highest on-time rate, 19.6 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.

• UA1634 DFW→ORD United Airlines on the same route, departs 10:39 AM, on time 84.4%
• AA328 DFW→ORD American Airlines on the same route, departs 8:35 AM, on time 83.5%
• AA2499 ORD→DFW Return trip, ORD to DFW, departs 4:55 PM, on time 68.3%