Flight number record

AA 119

American Airlines · Los Angeles to Lihue

Route: LAX → LIH
Departs: 09:12
Flights: 259
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 119, check with American Airlines.

AA 119 lands a B+, 2 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 roughly 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

79.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 258 completed flights

Avg delay

43 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 259 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 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 09:13 (50 flights) and 09:24 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:1258 flights22.4%
Departs 09:1350 flights19.3%
Departs 09:2444 flights17.0%

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 09:12 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 119 runs 5 points worse at 79.5%. 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 119 next to LAX to LIH

Every carrier on LAX to LIH combined arrived on time 84.1% of the time across 1,539 flights, so AA 119 is 5 points behind it. American flew 391 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

AA 119 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 119thin sample	259	79.5%	43 min	0.00%	B+
All American Airlines on LAX–LIH	391	77.6%	48 min	0.00%	B+
All carriers on LAX–LIH	1,539	84.1%	55 min	0.39%	B+
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 119 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 119 held fairly steady: 84.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 76.6% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 77.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights84.6%
Oct–Dec 202577 flights76.6%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
Apr–Jun 202685 flights77.6%

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

By weekday, AA 119 did best on Monday at 87.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 71.8%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 119 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,295 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
26%

34% 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 2,295 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 34 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 2,295 delay minutes reported on AA 119.

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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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, read AA 119 as 79.5% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 259 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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