Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2688
Raleigh–Durham (RDU) to Charlotte (CLT) · scheduled 12:49 PM – 2:00 PM
How AA2688 performs
814 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on RDU → CLT, AA2688 averaged about 5 operations a week (814 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2688 arrived on time 84.3% of the time, against 78.8% for all RDU → CLT flights, so this departure is 5.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.5 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 814 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2688 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA2688 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2688 | 84.3% | 1.23% | -6 min | 5.7% | 814 |
| American Airlines on RDU → CLT | 78.8% | 1.53% | -6 min | 7.5% | 10,616 |
| All RDU → CLT flights | 78.8% | 1.54% | -6 min | 7.5% | 10,650 |
AA2688 cancelled 10 of 814 operations (1.23%), close to the 1.54% for RDU → CLT.
5.7% of AA2688’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 7.5% across RDU → CLT, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why AA2688 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2688 on RDU → CLT. 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 AA2688 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA2688 came in 15 or more minutes late on 14% 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 RDU: 786 of 804 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 |
|---|---|
| AA2688 | 14% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
51 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 45 to 59 minutes. How often AA2688’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves RDU late, does that still matter by the time it reaches CLT?
AA2688 pushes back an average of 10.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at CLT an average of 4.2 minutes late. The 6.5 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. Its 17.9 minutes on the taxiways at RDU is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at CLT, AA2688 spends 8.8 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 4.0 minutes shorter than a typical CLT arrival (12.8 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 11,761 RDU departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 633,359 arrivals at CLT. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves RDU
AA2688 has one departure time, 12:49 PM, so this is what that hour at RDU is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 11,761 departures from RDU are scheduled in the 12 PM–1 PM hour over the period, against 184,584 across the whole day.
AA2688 is scheduled out of RDU at 12:49 PM, in the 12 PM–1 PM bank. Departures from RDU in that hour arrive on time 79.6% of the time against 79.3% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour AA2688 leaves in is an ordinary one for RDU and explains nothing about its record either way.
Both airport figures cover every destination from RDU, 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.
Other routes AA2688 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2688 also served these 9 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLT→RDU Charlotte to Raleigh–Durham | July 1, 2023 – August 31, 2026 | 738 | 84.9% |
| DFW→SNA Dallas–Fort Worth to Santa Ana | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 65 | — |
| SNA→DFW Santa Ana to Dallas–Fort Worth | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 65 | — |
| PHL→RSW Philadelphia to Fort Myers | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
| RSW→PHL Fort Myers to Philadelphia | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
| DFW→MIA Dallas–Fort Worth to Miami | October 26, 2024 – November 2, 2024 | 8 | — |
| DFW→XNA Dallas–Fort Worth to Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers | July 5, 2024 – August 4, 2024 | 30 | — |
| BGR→CLT Bangor to Charlotte | July 7, 2024 | 1 | — |
| DFW→DCA Dallas–Fort Worth to Washington | June 5, 2024 – July 3, 2024 | 29 | — |
The figures above describe only RDU → CLT, the route AA2688 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
28 min late
against a median of 6 min early
Percentiles over 814 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA580 | American Airlines | 94.5% | 21 min early | 610 |
| AA1895 | American Airlines | 88.8% | 8 min early | 902 |
| AA2688 this flight | American Airlines | 84.3% | 6 min early | 814 |
| AA1906 | American Airlines | 79.1% | 1 min late | 922 |
| AA683 | American Airlines | 78.6% | 2 min early | 753 |
| AA1897 | American Airlines | 78.3% | 7 min early | 844 |
| AA2704 | American Airlines | 66.9% | 2 min late | 874 |
| AA1904 | American Airlines | 66.1% | 0 min early | 849 |
| AA1894 | American Airlines | 63.2% | 3 min late | 996 |
Among the 9 departures listed, AA2688 has the 3rd highest on-time rate, 10.2 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 814 records of AA2688 operating RDU → CLT, 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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