Flight number record

AA 1928

American Airlines · Orlando to Los Angeles

Route: MCO → LAX
Departs: 08:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1928's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights

Avg delay

87 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 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 1928 flies

AA 1928 flies MCO to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 124 of 365 flights, with 06:28 (53 flights) and 06:32 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:00124 flights34.0%
Departs 06:2853 flights14.5%
Departs 06:3244 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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 1928 runs 2 points better at 86.3%. 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 1928 next to MCO to LAX

Every carrier on MCO to LAX combined arrived on time 80.4% of the time across 3,489 flights, so AA 1928 is 6 points ahead of it. American flew 735 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

AA 1928 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1928	365	86.3%	87 min	0.00%	A+
All American Airlines on MCO–LAX	735	73.4%	110 min	0.27%	C+
All carriers on MCO–LAX	3,489	80.4%	79 min	0.60%	B+
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1928 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1928 held fairly steady: 87.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights87.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.8%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1928 did best on Tuesday at 92.5% on time and worst on Monday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1928 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 4,344 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
53%
Late-arriving aircraft
36%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
1%

36% 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 4,344 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 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 4,344 delay minutes reported on AA 1928.

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

6.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, 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 365 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. 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.

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: 86.3% on time and 0.00% 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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