Flight number record

AA 10

American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York

Route: LAX → JFK
Departs: 21:30
Flights: 361
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

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

AA 10 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 10's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 73 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.77%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

5.1%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 361 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 10 flies

AA 10 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:30, used on 65 of 361 flights.

Departs 21:3065 flights18.0%

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 21:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AA 10 runs 15 points better at 84.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

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Against the route

AA 10 next to LAX to JFK

Every carrier on LAX to JFK combined arrived on time 77.5% of the time across 10,289 flights, so AA 10 is 7 points ahead of it. American flew 3,303 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

AA 10 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 10thin sample	361	84.6%	83 min	2.77%	B
All American Airlines on LAX–JFK	3,303	74.9%	112 min	2.66%	C
All carriers on LAX–JFK	10,289	77.5%	90 min	2.90%	B
American Airlines, whole network	988,892	74.7%	85 min	2.14%	C

Across the year

AA 10 quarter by quarter

AA 10 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 88.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.0%, a swing of 12 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 202530 flights—
Oct–Dec 202589 flights88.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.0%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights86.4%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights86.0%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 10 ranged from 82.4% on Monday to 90.0% on Saturday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late AA 10 runs when it is late

AA 10 often beats the schedule: 147 of 350 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 54 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.

15+ min early147 flights42.0%
Within 15 min149 flights42.6%
15–29 min late23 flights6.6%
30–59 min late13 flights3.7%
1–2 hours late9 flights2.6%
2+ hours late9 flights2.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 63 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 22 still arrived on time. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for AA 10

The latest arrival of the period was on 31 March 2026, 14 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.

The latest arrivals of AA 10 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
31 March 2026	14 hours 39 minutes	Carrier
25 January 2026	11 hours 44 minutes	Extreme weather
10 May 2026	3 hours 31 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
16 July 2026	3 hours 2 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
10 July 2026	2 hours 56 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why AA 10 runs late

Carrier accounts for 45% of the 4,481 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
Extreme weather
13%
National Airspace System
11%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,481 delay minutes reported on AA 10.

Cancellations run at 2.77%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.1% 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 an hour and a half, 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 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, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 10: 2.77% of its 361 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures