AA2391

Between its first and last recorded date on PHX → ATL, AA2391 averaged about 4 operations a week (605 in 1,030 days, cancelled ones included).

AA2391 arrived on time 70.9% of the time, against 82.9% for all PHX → ATL flights, so this departure is 12.0 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 4.2 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 605 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2391 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

AA2391 cancelled 2 of 605 operations (0.33%), close to the 0.67% for PHX → ATL.

10.1% of AA2391’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 5.5% across PHX → ATL, 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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2391 on PHX → ATL. 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

The aircraft flying AA2391 came in 15 or more minutes late on 18% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.

Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into PHX: 560 of 603 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.

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

AA2391 pushes back an average of 19.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at ATL an average of 15.4 minutes late. The 4.1 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 15.2 minutes on the taxiways at PHX is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at ATL, AA2391 spends 9.6 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 about what any arrival at ATL 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 38,263 PHX departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 1,039,387 arrivals at ATL. More on taxi time.

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

AA2391 is scheduled out of PHX at 3:30 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from PHX in that hour arrive on time 74.6% of the time against 80.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.6 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

Both airport figures cover every destination from PHX, 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.

The figures above describe only PHX → ATL, the route AA2391 flies now.

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

Among all 6 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2391 has the lowest on-time rate, 23.5 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.

• DL901 PHX→ATL Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 7:05 AM, on time 90.2%
• DL929 PHX→ATL Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 11:59 PM, on time 84.9%
• DL918 PHX→ATL Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 6:00 AM, on time 94.4%