Flight profile · American Airlines
AA490
Chicago (ORD) to Philadelphia (PHL) · scheduled 9:01 PM – 11:41 PM
How AA490 performs
271 operations, 2023-07-02 to 2026-06-30.
AA490 arrived on time 41.6% of the time, against 72.4% for all ORD → PHL flights — this specific departure is 30.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’s own flights on this route it is 30.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 271 operations between 2023-07-02 to 2026-06-30
Against the rest of the route
| On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA490 | 41.6% | 5.54% | 24 min | 30.6% | 271 |
| American Airlines on ORD → PHL | 71.6% | 2.38% | -2 min | 12.3% | 8,230 |
| All ORD → PHL flights | 72.4% | 1.83% | -3 min | 11.5% | 13,674 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2023-07-02 to 2026-06-30
Other routes AA490 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.
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA490 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 271 records of AA490 operating ORD → 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.