Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2533
Philadelphia (PHL) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 6:35 PM – 9:30 PM
How AA2533 performs
895 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on PHL → DFW, AA2533 averaged about 5 operations a week (895 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2533 arrived on time 65.7% of the time, against 76.4% for all PHL → DFW flights, so this departure is 10.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 12.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 895 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2533 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA2533 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
Which day you fly matters unusually much here, a wider weekday spread than 94% of 1,863 comparable flight numbers.
75.4% on time on a typical Wednesday, against 56.4% on a Sunday.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 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.
Where AA2533 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2533 | 65.7% | 4.36% | 1 min | 13.0% | 895 |
| American Airlines on PHL → DFW | 77.7% | 2.55% | -8 min | 8.7% | 9,961 |
| All PHL → DFW flights | 76.4% | 2.57% | -8 min | 9.5% | 11,023 |
AA2533 has cancelled 4.36% of its scheduled departures (39 of 895), against 2.57% for all PHL → DFW flights — this specific departure cancels 1.8 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 AA2533 specifically, not about the route it flies.
13.0% of AA2533’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 9.5% across PHL → DFW, 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
Why AA2533 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 AA2533 on PHL → DFW. 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
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA2533 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2533 pushed back an average of 41 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 17 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into PHL: 553 of 859 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2533 | 26% | 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 AA2533’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA2533 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves PHL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA2533 pushes back an average of 25.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 16.7 minutes late. The 9.1 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 25.6 minutes on the taxiways at PHL is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at DFW, AA2533 spends 14.8 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 1.2 minutes longer than a typical DFW arrival (13.6 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 32,303 PHL departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 988,998 arrivals at DFW. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves PHL
AA2533 has one departure time, 6:35 PM, so this is what that hour at PHL is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 32,303 departures from PHL are scheduled in the 6 PM–7 PM hour over the period, against 315,217 across the whole day.
AA2533 is scheduled out of PHL at 6:35 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from PHL in that hour arrive on time 65.7% of the time against 76.0% 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 PHL, 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.
By day of week
Does AA2533 run worse on particular days?
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 19.0 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AA2533 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2533 also served these 9 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLT→EYW Charlotte to Key West | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 71 | — |
| EYW→CLT Key West to Charlotte | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 71 | — |
| CLT→ORD Charlotte to Chicago | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 30 | — |
| EGE→MIA Eagle to Miami | February 14, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 4 | — |
| MIA→EGE Miami to Eagle | February 14, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 4 | — |
| FLL→ORD Fort Lauderdale to Chicago | February 12, 2026 – March 6, 2026 | 20 | — |
| ORD→MIA Chicago to Miami | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 37 | — |
| CLT→CVG Charlotte to Cincinnati / Covington | November 2, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 50 | — |
| PHX→DFW Phoenix to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
The figures above describe only PHL → DFW, the route AA2533 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
72 min late
against a median of 1 min late
AA2533 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 1 min late, but the worst tenth are 71 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 895 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1692 | American Airlines | 79.7% | 10 min early | 605 |
| AA2533 this flight | American Airlines | 65.7% | 1 min late | 895 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2533 has the lowest on-time rate, 14.0 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 895 records of AA2533 operating PHL → 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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