Flight number record
AA 1867
American Airlines · Sacramento to Phoenix
- Route
- SMF → PHX
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 341
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1867, check with American Airlines.
AA 1867 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 341 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1867's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 150 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 337 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.17%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 341 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 1867 flies
AA 1867 flies SMF to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 268 of 341 flights, with 10:00 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00268 flights78.6%
- Departs 10:0041 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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1867 runs 3 points better at 92.3%. 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 1867 next to SMF to PHX
Every carrier on SMF to PHX combined arrived on time 80.8% of the time across 3,615 flights, so AA 1867 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 981 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 18 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1867thin sample | 341 | 92.3% | 67 min | 1.17% | A |
| All American Airlines on SMF–PHX | 981 | 86.8% | 100 min | 0.61% | A+ |
| All carriers on SMF–PHX | 3,615 | 80.8% | 61 min | 0.53% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1867 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1867 held fairly steady: 86.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 96.5% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights93.4%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights91.7%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights96.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.5%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 1867 did best on Thursday at 97.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 85.4%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1867 runs when it is late
AA 1867 often beats the schedule: 107 of 337 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 26 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early107 flights31.8%
- Within 15 min204 flights60.5%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.6%
- 30–59 min late5 flights1.5%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.5%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 337 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 26 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1867
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 March 2026, 4 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2026 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 May 2026 | 3 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 July 2026 | 3 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 March 2026 | 2 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 July 2026 | 1 hour 52 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1867 runs late
Carrier accounts for 72% of the 1,739 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 72%Carrier
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,250 of the 1,739 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,739 delay minutes reported on AA 1867.
Cancellations sit at 1.17% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.7% 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.
The 647 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including PHX to SMF (41), CMH to DFW (1) and SYR to DCA (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1867 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SMF to PHX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 341 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 1867
For a booking, AA 1867 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.3% on time and 1.17% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- SMF to PHX, every carrier and departure
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- Sacramento International (SMF) delay statistics
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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.