Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2561
Houston (IAH) to Philadelphia (PHL) · scheduled 7:05 AM – 11:26 AM
How AA2561 performs
102 operations, 2025-06-05 to 2026-06-30.
AA2561 arrived on time 77.9% of the time, against 80.1% for all IAH → PHL flights — this specific departure is 2.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’s own flights on this route it is 2.4 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 102 operations between 2025-06-05 to 2026-06-30
Against the rest of the route
| On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2561 | 77.9% | 6.86% | -11 min | 16.8% | 102 |
| American Airlines on IAH → PHL | 80.3% | 3.06% | -9 min | 9.9% | 1,928 |
| All IAH → PHL flights | 80.1% | 1.96% | -7 min | 9.0% | 5,706 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2025-06-05 to 2026-06-30
Other routes AA2561 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLT→VPS Charlotte to Valparaiso | 2023-07-01 – 2026-05-20 | 523 | 79.5% |
| VPS→CLT Valparaiso to Charlotte | 2023-07-01 – 2026-05-20 | 455 | 79.8% |
| ORD→LAX Chicago to Los Angeles | 2026-01-31 – 2026-02-11 | 12 | — |
| DFW→LBB Dallas–Fort Worth to Lubbock | 2026-01-11 – 2026-01-30 | 3 | — |
| LBB→DFW Lubbock to Dallas–Fort Worth | 2026-01-11 – 2026-01-30 | 3 | — |
| SAT→DFW San Antonio to Dallas–Fort Worth | 2026-01-17 – 2026-01-17 | 1 | — |
| CLE→DFW Cleveland to Dallas–Fort Worth | 2026-01-06 – 2026-01-06 | 1 | — |
| ORD→RSW Chicago to Fort Myers | 2023-12-05 – 2025-11-01 | 250 | 75.2% |
| RSW→ORD Fort Myers to Chicago | 2023-12-05 – 2025-11-01 | 217 | 63.0% |
| PHL→BGR Philadelphia to Bangor | 2024-09-04 – 2024-10-02 | 9 | — |
| ORD→SYR Chicago to Syracuse | 2024-08-06 – 2024-09-03 | 22 | — |
| SYR→ORD Syracuse to Chicago | 2024-08-06 – 2024-09-03 | 22 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA2561 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 102 records of AA2561 operating IAH → PHL, 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.