Flight number record
AA 143
American Airlines · Los Angeles to Honolulu
- Route
- LAX → HNL
- Departs
- 15:48
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 143, check with American Airlines.
AA 143 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 roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 143 flies
AA 143 flies LAX to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:48, used on 44 of 365 flights, with 16:17 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 15:4844 flights12.1%
- Departs 16:1737 flights10.1%
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 15:48 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AA 143 runs 8 points better at 79.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AA 143 next to LAX to HNL
Every carrier on LAX to HNL combined arrived on time 76.2% of the time across 5,540 flights, so AA 143 is 4 points ahead of it. American flew 1,182 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 143 | 365 | 79.9% | 52 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All American Airlines on LAX–HNL | 1,182 | 76.2% | 61 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–HNL | 5,540 | 76.2% | 73 min | 0.51% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 143 quarter by quarter
AA 143 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 75.8%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 73 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights75.8%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 143 did best on Monday at 86.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 61.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 143 runs when it is late
AA 143 often beats the schedule: 132 of 364 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 37 of the 73 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 19 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early132 flights36.3%
- Within 15 min159 flights43.7%
- 15–29 min late37 flights10.2%
- 30–59 min late17 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 29 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 HNL.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 143
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 July 2026, 5 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2026 | 5 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 January 2026 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 July 2026 | 2 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 July 2026 | 2 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 143 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 3,783 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,783 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 3,783 delay minutes reported on AA 143.
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
5.2% 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 roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,556 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 365 flights under AA 143 in the data flew LAX to HNL. 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. 365 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 143 as 79.9% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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- LAX to HNL, every carrier and departure
- HNL to LAX, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 443 on the same route82.1%
- Delta Air Lines 465 on the same route77.4%
- Delta Air Lines 480 on the same route82.2%
- American Airlines 31 on the same route81.9%
- United Airlines 1170 on the same route79.3%
- United Airlines 1158 on the same route87.8%
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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.