Flight number record

AA 1024

American Airlines · Los Angeles to Orlando

Route: LAX → MCO
Departs: 09:00
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1024, check with American Airlines.

AA 1024 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 10 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1024 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 95 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights

Avg delay

70 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When AA 1024 flies

AA 1024 flies LAX to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 52 of 364 flights, with 09:02 (47 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:0052 flights14.3%
Departs 09:0247 flights12.9%

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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 1024 runs 16 points worse at 68.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AA 1024 next to LAX to MCO

Every carrier on LAX to MCO combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 3,487 flights, so AA 1024 is 9 points behind it. American flew 735 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

AA 1024 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1024thin sample	364	68.1%	70 min	0.55%	C+
All American Airlines on LAX–MCO	735	73.3%	76 min	0.27%	C+
All carriers on LAX–MCO	3,487	77.1%	69 min	0.57%	B+
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1024 quarter by quarter

AA 1024 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 60.4%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 91 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 flights60.4%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights75.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.9%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights61.1%

Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1024 did best on Friday at 76.9% on time and worst on Monday at 60.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1024 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 8,072 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
44%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
24%
Security
1%
Extreme weather
0%

44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 8,072 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 8,072 delay minutes reported on AA 1024.

Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 2,218 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 364 flights under AA 1024 in the data flew LAX to MCO. 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. 364 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 1024

For a booking, AA 1024 is one of the weaker ways to fly LAX to MCO: 9 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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