AA2809

AA2809 arrived on time 86.7% of the time, against 75.6% for all BNA → PHL flights, so this departure is 11.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 11.6 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 668 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2809 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 ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 95% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

86.7% on time for this specific departure, against 75.1% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – 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.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2809 on BNA → PHL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

AA2809 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8.9 hours on the ground at BNA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2809 pushed back an average of 15 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into BNA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 627 of 653 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

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

AA2809 pushes back an average of 15.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at PHL an average of 10.2 minutes late. The 5.1 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 16.1 minutes on the taxiways at BNA, 1.5 minutes shorter than a typical BNA departure in the same hour.

On arrival at PHL, AA2809 spends 8.0 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 PHL spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached PHL. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 22,697 departures from BNA scheduled in the clock hour AA2809 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at PHL (305,143 flights), not just AA2809’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA2809 is scheduled out of BNA at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from BNA in that hour arrive on time 88.8% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.5 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from BNA to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA2809 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

• AA1342 BNA→MIA American Airlines flight out of BNA, BNA to MIA, departs 6:00 AM, on time 85.6%
• AA2583 BNA→DFW American Airlines flight out of BNA, BNA to DFW, departs 7:00 AM, on time 77.3%
• AA2787 BNA→DFW American Airlines flight out of BNA, BNA to DFW, departs 5:00 AM, on time 86.4%