Flight number record
AA 1928
American Airlines · Orlando to Los Angeles
- Route
- MCO → LAX
- Departs
- 08:00
- Flights
- 346
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1928, check with American Airlines.
AA 1928 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1928's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 94 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 346 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 1928 flies
AA 1928 flies MCO to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 62 of 346 flights, with 06:28 (53 flights) and 06:32 (44 flights) next.
- Departs 08:0062 flights17.9%
- Departs 06:2853 flights15.3%
- Departs 06:3244 flights12.7%
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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 1928 runs 3 points better at 86.7%. 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 1928 next to MCO to LAX
Every carrier on MCO to LAX combined arrived on time 81.7% of the time across 3,517 flights, so AA 1928 is 5 points ahead of it. American flew 735 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1928thin sample | 346 | 86.7% | 82 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All American Airlines on MCO–LAX | 735 | 76.1% | 100 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| All carriers on MCO–LAX | 3,517 | 81.7% | 72 min | 0.71% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1928 quarter by quarter
AA 1928 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.2%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 69 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 flights88.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.8%
- Jul–Sep 202643 flights86.0%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 1928 did best on Thursday at 94.2% on time and worst on Monday at 77.1%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1928 runs when it is late
AA 1928 often beats the schedule: 154 of 345 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 46 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early154 flights44.6%
- Within 15 min145 flights42.0%
- 15–29 min late15 flights4.3%
- 30–59 min late9 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.3%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 345 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 56 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 19 still arrived on time. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1928
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 June 2026, 11 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 June 2026 | 11 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 October 2025 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 January 2026 | 3 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 November 2025 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 October 2025 | 2 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1928 runs late
Carrier accounts for 62% of the 3,748 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 62%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,339 of the 3,748 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,748 delay minutes reported on AA 1928.
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
6.4% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,218 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 346 flights under AA 1928 in the data flew MCO to LAX. 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. 346 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 1928
For a booking, AA 1928 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.7% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.