Flight number record
AA 2
American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York
- Route
- LAX → JFK
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 359
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2, check with American Airlines.
AA 2 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.3 hours. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 82 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
136 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.23%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 359 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2 flies
AA 2 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 242 of 359 flights, with 07:15 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00242 flights67.4%
- Departs 07:1537 flights10.3%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2 runs 4 points worse at 85.5%. 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 2 next to LAX to JFK
Every carrier on LAX to JFK combined arrived on time 77.5% of the time across 10,289 flights, so AA 2 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 3,303 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2thin sample | 359 | 85.5% | 136 min | 2.23% | A |
| All American Airlines on LAX–JFK | 3,303 | 74.9% | 112 min | 2.66% | C |
| All carriers on LAX–JFK | 10,289 | 77.5% | 90 min | 2.90% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2 quarter by quarter
AA 2 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 94.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.6%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 90 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 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights94.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.3%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2 ranged from 80.4% on Wednesday to 92.0% on Monday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2 runs when it is late
AA 2 often beats the schedule: 155 of 345 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 50 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early155 flights44.9%
- Within 15 min140 flights40.6%
- 15–29 min late16 flights4.6%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.2%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late17 flights4.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 345 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 43 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 14 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 21 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 JFK.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 January 2026, 11 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | 11 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 February 2026 | 9 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 May 2026 | 8 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 May 2026 | 8 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 February 2026 | 7 hours 17 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why AA 2 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,785 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 40%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,785 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 to one. The split is drawn from 6,785 delay minutes reported on AA 2.
Cancellations sit at 2.23% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.67%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.7% 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 about 2.3 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,475 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 359 flights under AA 2 in the data flew LAX to JFK. 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. 359 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 2
For a booking, read AA 2 as 85.5% on time with 2.23% cancelled over 359 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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- LAX to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to LAX, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 960 on the same route83.1%
- American Airlines 118 on the same route83.6%
- American Airlines 307 on the same route74.6%
- Delta Air Lines 958 on the same route82.4%
- American Airlines 274 on the same route57.9%
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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.