Flight number record
AA 1
American Airlines · New York to Los Angeles
- Route
- JFK → LAX
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1, check with American Airlines.
AA 1 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights
Avg delay
125 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.72%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 349 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When AA 1 flies
AA 1 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 158 of 349 flights.
- Departs 07:00158 flights45.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1 runs 4 points worse at 85.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 1 next to JFK to LAX
Every carrier on JFK to LAX combined arrived on time 75.4% of the time across 10,285 flights, so AA 1 is 10 points ahead of it. American flew 3,298 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1thin sample | 349 | 85.7% | 125 min | 1.72% | A |
| All American Airlines on JFK–LAX | 3,298 | 78.6% | 96 min | 2.61% | B |
| All carriers on JFK–LAX | 10,285 | 75.4% | 78 min | 2.78% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1 quarter by quarter
AA 1 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.1%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 70 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.1%
- Jan–Mar 202677 flights78.1%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights89.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights79.0%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 1 did best on Thursday at 91.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 79.6%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1 runs when it is late
AA 1 often beats the schedule: 157 of 343 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 49 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early157 flights45.8%
- Within 15 min137 flights39.9%
- 15–29 min late13 flights3.8%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late15 flights4.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 343 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. In the other direction, 20 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 May 2026, 14 hours 9 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2026 | 14 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 April 2026 | 8 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 July 2026 | 7 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 March 2026 | 7 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 7 hours 11 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why AA 1 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,127 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,127 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 6,127 delay minutes reported on AA 1.
Cancellations sit at 1.72% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.1 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,475 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 349 flights under AA 1 in the data flew JFK to LAX. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 349 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
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For a booking, read AA 1 as 85.7% on time with 1.72% cancelled over 349 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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- JFK to LAX, every carrier and departure
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- Delta Air Lines 738 on the same route72.7%
- American Airlines 171 on the same route88.1%
- Delta Air Lines 773 on the same route78.6%
- American Airlines 117 on the same route69.1%
- American Airlines 255 on the same route78.3%
- American Airlines 341 on the same route76.4%
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A flight number here means American Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.