Flight number record
AA 1024
American Airlines · Los Angeles to Orlando
- Route
- LAX → MCO
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1024, check with American Airlines.
AA 1024 draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 1024 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 95 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.57%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 349 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 349 flights, with 09:02 (47 flights) next.
- Departs 09:0052 flights14.9%
- Departs 09:0247 flights13.5%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 1024 runs 16 points worse at 67.8%. 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 1024 next to LAX to MCO
Every carrier on LAX to MCO combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 3,515 flights, so AA 1024 is 9 points behind it. American flew 734 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1024thin sample | 349 | 67.8% | 74 min | 0.57% | C+ |
| All American Airlines on LAX–MCO | 734 | 71.8% | 83 min | 0.27% | C+ |
| All carriers on LAX–MCO | 3,515 | 76.6% | 66 min | 0.68% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1024 quarter by quarter
AA 1024 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 43.5%, a swing of 37 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights75.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.9%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights61.1%
- Jul–Sep 202647 flights43.5%
Scale runs 35% to 85%.
By weekday, AA 1024 ranged from 63.8% on Monday to 72.9% on Friday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1024 runs when it is late
The 111 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 41 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early57 flights16.5%
- Within 15 min177 flights51.3%
- 15–29 min late35 flights10.1%
- 30–59 min late35 flights10.1%
- 1–2 hours late26 flights7.5%
- 2+ hours late15 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 345 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 93 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 31 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 MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1024
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 April 2026, 10 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 April 2026 | 10 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 January 2026 | 8 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 July 2026 | 8 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 November 2025 | 4 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 April 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1024 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 8,188 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
- 0%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,188 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 52 to one. The split is drawn from 8,188 delay minutes reported on AA 1024.
Cancellations are rare at 0.57%, below the national 1.89% 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
11.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 349 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. 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
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.
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- LAX to MCO, every carrier and departure
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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.