Flight number record
AA 2
American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York
- Route
- LAX → JFK
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 359
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.5 hours. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
149 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.67%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 359 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2 flies
AA 2 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 212 of 359 flights, with 07:15 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:00212 flights59.1%
- Departs 07:1537 flights10.3%
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 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 3 points worse at 86.4%. 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 2 next to LAX to JFK
Every carrier on LAX to JFK combined arrived on time 79.1% of the time across 10,287 flights, so AA 2 is 7 points ahead of it. American flew 3,242 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2thin sample | 359 | 86.4% | 149 min | 1.67% | A |
| All American Airlines on LAX–JFK | 3,242 | 76.7% | 112 min | 2.19% | B |
| All carriers on LAX–JFK | 10,287 | 79.1% | 92 min | 2.04% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | 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 202587 flights91.8%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights94.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.0%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2 did best on Monday at 91.8% on time and worst on Wednesday at 78.4%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
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 7,004 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 40%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
42% 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 7,004 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 26 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 7,004 delay minutes reported on AA 2.
Cancellations sit at 1.67% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.95%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.9% 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 about 2.5 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 86.4% on time with 1.67% cancelled over 359 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to LAX, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 960 on the same route84.4%
- American Airlines 118 on the same route85.8%
- Delta Air Lines 934 on the same route89.4%
- Delta Air Lines 958 on the same route81.5%
- American Airlines 274 on the same route60.8%
- American Airlines 307 on the same route75.4%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.