Flight number record

AA 10

American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York

Route: LAX → JFK
Departs: 21:21
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 10, check with American Airlines.

AA 10 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 10's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.22%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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.

Schedule

When AA 10 flies

AA 10 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:21, used on 63 of 361 flights, with 21:30 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 21:2163 flights17.5%
Departs 21:3037 flights10.2%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 21:21 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 10 runs 16 points better at 86.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

AA 10 next to LAX to JFK

Every carrier on LAX to JFK combined arrived on time 79.1% of the time across 10,287 flights, so AA 10 is 7 points ahead of it. American flew 3,242 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

AA 10 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 10thin sample	361	86.4%	79 min	2.22%	A
All American Airlines on LAX–JFK	3,242	76.7%	112 min	2.19%	B
All carriers on LAX–JFK	10,287	79.1%	92 min	2.04%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 10 quarter by quarter

AA 10 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 77.0%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 90 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 202592 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights88.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.0%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights86.4%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 10 did best on Saturday at 94.1% on time and worst on Monday at 82.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 10 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 49% of the 3,770 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
49%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
Extreme weather
16%
National Airspace System
13%

Extreme weather accounts for 16% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,770 delay minutes reported on AA 10.

Cancellations sit at 2.22% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

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 361 flights under AA 10 in the data flew LAX to JFK. 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. 361 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

Booking AA 10

For a booking, read AA 10 as 86.4% on time with 2.22% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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