Flight number record

AA 1867

American Airlines · Sacramento to Phoenix

Route: SMF → PHX
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 339
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1867, check with American Airlines.

AA 1867 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 339 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1867's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 159 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.88%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 339 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 263 of 339 flights, with 10:00 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00263 flights77.6%
Departs 10:0041 flights12.1%

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 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 4 points better at 93.5%. 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 1867 next to SMF to PHX

Every carrier on SMF to PHX combined arrived on time 81.5% of the time across 3,668 flights, so AA 1867 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 1,076 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 19 points.

AA 1867 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1867thin sample	339	93.5%	69 min	0.88%	A+
All American Airlines on SMF–PHX	1,076	87.4%	103 min	0.56%	A+
All carriers on SMF–PHX	3,668	81.5%	63 min	0.52%	B+
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1867 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1867 held fairly steady: 92.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202590 flights92.2%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights93.4%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights91.7%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights96.5%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1867 did best on Thursday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 87.2%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1867 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 72% of the 1,508 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
72%
Late-arriving aircraft
14%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,093 of the 1,508 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,508 delay minutes reported on AA 1867.

Cancellations are rare at 0.88%, below the national 1.81% 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 2.1% 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.

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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including PHX to SMF (41), DFW to CMH (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. 339 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: 93.5% on time and 0.88% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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