Flight number record
AA 119
American Airlines · Los Angeles to Lihue
- Route
- LAX → LIH
- Departs
- 09:12
- Flights
- 259
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 119, check with American Airlines.
AA 119 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights
Avg delay
44 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.39%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 259 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 119 flies
AA 119 flies LAX to LIH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:12, used on 58 of 259 flights, with 09:24 (44 flights) and 08:29 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 09:1258 flights22.4%
- Departs 09:2444 flights17.0%
- Departs 08:2942 flights16.2%
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 09:12 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 119 runs 6 points worse at 77.8%. 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 119 next to LAX to LIH
Every carrier on LAX to LIH combined arrived on time 82.9% of the time across 1,605 flights, so AA 119 is 5 points behind it. American flew 446 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 119thin sample | 259 | 77.8% | 44 min | 0.39% | B+ |
| All American Airlines on LAX–LIH | 446 | 75.1% | 47 min | 0.67% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–LIH | 1,605 | 82.9% | 54 min | 0.81% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 119 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 119 held fairly steady: 76.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 77.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 77.0% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of about a point is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights76.6%
- Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights77.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.0%
Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 119 did best on Monday at 90.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 69.2%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 119 runs when it is late
AA 119 often beats the schedule: 80 of 257 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 35 of the 57 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 10 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early80 flights31.1%
- Within 15 min120 flights46.7%
- 15–29 min late35 flights13.6%
- 30–59 min late12 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 257 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 50 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. In the other direction, 21 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 LIH.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 119
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 August 2026, 4 hours 16 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2026 | 4 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 December 2025 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 April 2026 | 3 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 August 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 October 2025 | 2 hours | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 119 runs late
Carrier accounts for 44% of the 2,505 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,097 of the 2,505 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,505 delay minutes reported on AA 119.
Cancellations are rare at 0.39%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 2,615 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 259 flights under AA 119 in the data flew LAX to LIH. 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. 259 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 119
For a booking, AA 119 is one of the weaker ways to fly LAX to LIH: 5 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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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.