Flight number record

AA 2053

American Airlines · San Antonio to Phoenix

Route: SAT → PHX
Departs: 09:06
Flights: 304
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2053, check with American Airlines.

AA 2053 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.7 hours. That rests on 304 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2053's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 77 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 300 completed flights

Avg delay

161 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.32%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 304 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2053 flies

AA 2053 flies SAT to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:06, used on 60 of 304 flights, with 09:10 (59 flights) and 08:40 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:0660 flights19.7%
Departs 09:1059 flights19.4%
Departs 08:4040 flights13.2%

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 09:06 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 2053 runs level with that at 85.3%. 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 2053 next to SAT to PHX

Every carrier on SAT to PHX combined arrived on time 81.9% of the time across 2,512 flights, so AA 2053 is 3 points ahead of it. American flew 1,018 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

AA 2053 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2053thin sample	304	85.3%	161 min	1.32%	A
All American Airlines on SAT–PHX	1,018	80.6%	115 min	0.98%	B+
All carriers on SAT–PHX	2,512	81.9%	78 min	0.52%	B+
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2053 quarter by quarter

AA 2053 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 90.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 58.7%, a swing of 32 points on roughly 76 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 202591 flights89.8%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights90.1%
Jan–Mar 202676 flights90.7%
Apr–Jun 202646 flights58.7%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2053 ranged from 80.0% on Wednesday to 91.3% on Tuesday. With about 43 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AA 2053 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 7,069 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
48%
Carrier
40%
Extreme weather
7%
National Airspace System
5%

48% 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 7,069 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 7,069 delay minutes reported on AA 2053.

Cancellations sit at 1.32% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.7% 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 2.7 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 843 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 three other city pairs in the data, including BNA to CLT (44), CLT to BNA (44) and GRR to CLT (14), but none flew often enough under AA 2053 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SAT to PHX only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 304 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 2053

For a booking, AA 2053 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.3% on time and 1.32% 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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