AA2871

AA2871 arrived on time 79.8% of the time, against 76.6% for all PHX → PIT flights, so this departure is 3.2 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 2.1 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 611 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2871 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2871 on PHX → PIT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

The aircraft flying AA2871 came in 15 or more minutes late on 16% 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.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into PHX just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 567 of 610 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 November 2023 – July 2026

AA2871 pushes back an average of 16.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at PIT an average of 6.2 minutes late. The 10.4 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 15.7 minutes on the taxiways at PHX, 1.0 minutes longer than a typical PHX departure in the same hour.

On arrival at PIT, AA2871 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 PIT 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 PIT. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 37,187 departures from PHX scheduled in the clock hour AA2871 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at PIT (132,905 flights), not just AA2871’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA2871 is scheduled out of PHX at 3:20 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from PHX in that hour arrive on time 74.7% of the time against 80.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.6 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from PHX 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 · November 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 AA2871 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

• AA1967 PHX→EWR American Airlines flight out of PHX, PHX to EWR, departs 3:15 PM, on time 68.9%
• AA832 PHX→JFK American Airlines flight out of PHX, PHX to JFK, departs 3:15 PM, on time 71.4%
• AA2829 JFK→PHX American Airlines flight into PHX, JFK to PHX, departs 12:59 PM, on time 84.0%