AA2508

Between its first and last recorded date on CLT → SMF, AA2508 averaged about 3 operations a week (162 in 422 days, cancelled ones included).

AA2508 arrived on time 57.3% of the time, against 68.9% for all CLT → SMF flights, so this departure is 11.6 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 11.6 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 162 operations, June 2025 – July 2026 · If AA2508 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far behind the carrier's own average on this route, worse than 91% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

57.3% on time for this specific departure, against 68.9% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2025 – 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.

AA2508 cancelled 4 of 162 operations (2.47%), above the 1.36% for CLT → SMF; on a count this small the difference is not a finding.

21.0% of AA2508’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 12.4% across CLT → SMF, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2025 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2508 on CLT → SMF. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2025 – July 2026

AA2508 pushes back an average of 43.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at SMF an average of 30.3 minutes late. The 13.5 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. It spends 19.8 minutes on the taxiways at CLT, 1.6 minutes shorter than a typical CLT departure in the same hour.

On arrival at SMF, AA2508 spends 5.6 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 SMF 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 51,543 CLT departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 172,477 arrivals at SMF. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2025 – July 2026

AA2508 is scheduled out of CLT at 6:33 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 65.5% of the time against 74.8% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.4 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

Both airport figures cover every destination from CLT, 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 · June 2025 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

The figures above describe only CLT → SMF, the route AA2508 flies now.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2025 – July 2026

• AA2464 SMF→CLT Return trip, SMF to CLT, departs 10:03 PM, on time 85.2%
• AA1060 CLT→LGA American Airlines flight out of CLT, CLT to LGA, departs 6:16 PM, on time 53.6%
• AA1580 CLT→SFO American Airlines flight out of CLT, CLT to SFO, departs 8:15 PM, on time 63.1%