Flight profile · American Airlines
AA882
Buffalo (BUF) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 7:00 AM – 9:19 AM
How AA882 performs
604 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on BUF → DFW, AA882 averaged about 4 operations a week (604 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA882 arrived on time 83.3% of the time, against 76.3% for all BUF → DFW flights, so this departure is 7.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 7.0 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 604 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA882 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA882 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA882 | 83.3% | 2.48% | -9 min | 6.3% | 604 |
| American Airlines on BUF → DFW | 76.3% | 2.01% | -5 min | 8.7% | 1,690 |
| All BUF → DFW flights | 76.3% | 1.99% | -5 min | 8.7% | 1,705 |
AA882 cancelled 15 of 604 operations (2.48%), close to the 1.99% for BUF → DFW.
6.3% of AA882’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.7% across BUF → DFW, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA882 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA882 on BUF → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA882 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA882 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.8 hours on the ground at BUF, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA882 pushed back an average of 12 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 8 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into BUF: 569 of 589 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA882 | 43% | 16% | 10% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground usually absorbs a late arrival, but this flight has passed a late inbound on more often than the network does.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA882’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA882 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft ranks the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves BUF late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA882 pushes back an average of 11.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 4.2 minutes late. The 7.3 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 15.2 minutes on the taxiways at BUF is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at DFW, AA882 spends 15.5 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 1.9 minutes longer than a typical DFW arrival (13.6 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 4,982 BUF departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 988,998 arrivals at DFW. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves BUF
AA882 has one departure time, 7:00 AM, so this is what that hour at BUF is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 4,982 departures from BUF are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 67,459 across the whole day.
AA882 is scheduled out of BUF at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from BUF in that hour arrive on time 87.6% of the time against 79.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.3 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from BUF, 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 · November 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA882 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA882 also served these 15 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORD→ATL Chicago to Atlanta | March 9, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 25 | — |
| DFW→RSW Dallas–Fort Worth to Fort Myers | March 8, 2026 | 1 | — |
| RSW→DFW Fort Myers to Dallas–Fort Worth | March 8, 2026 | 1 | — |
| DCA→MIA Washington to Miami | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 24 | — |
| PHX→RNO Phoenix to Reno | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 36 | — |
| RNO→PHX Reno to Phoenix | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 36 | — |
| DFW→FLL Dallas–Fort Worth to Fort Lauderdale | December 19, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 14 | — |
| FLL→DFW Fort Lauderdale to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 19, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 14 | — |
| PDX→DFW Portland to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| DFW→PHX Dallas–Fort Worth to Phoenix | November 25, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 5 | — |
| PHX→DFW Phoenix to Dallas–Fort Worth | November 25, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 5 | — |
| MIA→DCA Miami to Washington | November 2–19, 2025 | 16 | — |
| DFW→BUF Dallas–Fort Worth to Buffalo | December 5–18, 2024 | 14 | — |
| TUL→DFW Tulsa to Dallas–Fort Worth | July 1, 2023 – November 4, 2024 | 253 | 87.9% |
| DFW→MSY Dallas–Fort Worth to New Orleans | August 15, 2023 – November 3, 2023 | 75 | — |
The figures above describe only BUF → DFW, the route AA882 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
31 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 604 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 604 records of AA882 operating BUF → DFW, 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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