Flight number record
AA 1118
American Airlines · Los Angeles to Orlando
- Route
- LAX → MCO
- Departs
- 22:36
- Flights
- 309
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. 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 rests on 309 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 309 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 309 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 309 flights, with 21:41 (42 flights) and 22:20 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 22:3654 flights17.5%
- Departs 21:4142 flights13.6%
- Departs 22:2037 flights12.0%
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 22:36 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AA 1118 runs 11 points better at 80.6%. 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 1118 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 1118 is 4 points ahead of 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 beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1118thin sample | 309 | 80.6% | 79 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| 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 1118 quarter by quarter
AA 1118 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 70.6%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 77 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 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights80.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%
- Jul–Sep 202634 flights70.6%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1118 did best on Monday at 87.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 62.5%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1118 runs when it is late
AA 1118 often beats the schedule: 88 of 309 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early88 flights28.5%
- Within 15 min161 flights52.1%
- 15–29 min late22 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late20 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 309 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 62 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1118
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 June 2026, 11 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 June 2026 | 11 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 July 2026 | 10 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 October 2025 | 8 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 December 2025 | 4 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 March 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 1118 runs late
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 4,744 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,719 of the 4,744 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,744 delay minutes reported on AA 1118.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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
5.8% 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 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 309 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. 309 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.
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For a booking, read AA 1118 as 80.6% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 309 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- LAX to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to LAX, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 482 on the same route82.0%
- Delta Air Lines 718 on the same route75.2%
- United Airlines 1621 on the same route88.9%
- American Airlines 1024 on the same route67.8%
- Delta Air Lines 547 on the same route78.2%
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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.