Flight number record

AA 1118

American Airlines · Los Angeles to Orlando

Route: LAX → MCO
Departs: 22:36
Flights: 330
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1118, check with American Airlines.

AA 1118 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 330 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

80.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 330 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 330 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 1118 flies

AA 1118 flies LAX to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:36, used on 54 of 330 flights, with 21:41 (41 flights) and 22:20 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:3654 flights16.4%
Departs 21:4141 flights12.4%
Departs 22:2037 flights11.2%

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 22:36 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 1118 runs 10 points better at 80.9%. 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 1118 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 1118 is 4 points ahead of 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 beats by 7 points.

AA 1118 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1118thin sample	330	80.9%	75 min	0.00%	B+
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 1118 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1118 held fairly steady: 81.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 77.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202572 flights81.9%
Oct–Dec 202577 flights80.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1118 did best on Wednesday at 86.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 71.2%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1118 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 4,691 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
53%
Late-arriving aircraft
39%
National Airspace System
8%

39% 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 4,691 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 39 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 4,691 delay minutes reported on AA 1118.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

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 330 flights under AA 1118 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. 330 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 1118

For a booking, read AA 1118 as 80.9% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 330 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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