Flight number record
AA 2053
American Airlines · San Antonio to Phoenix
- Route
- SAT → PHX
- Departs
- 19:04
- Flights
- 303
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2053, check with American Airlines.
AA 2053 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.3 hours on average. That rests on 303 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2053's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 54 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 300 completed flights
Avg delay
139 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.66%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 303 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2053 flies
AA 2053 flies SAT to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:04, used on 74 of 303 flights, with 09:06 (60 flights) and 08:40 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 19:0474 flights24.4%
- Departs 09:0660 flights19.8%
- Departs 08:4040 flights13.2%
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 19:04 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 2053 runs 15 points better at 82.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 2053 next to SAT to PHX
Every carrier on SAT to PHX combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 2,509 flights, so AA 2053 is 2 points ahead of it. American flew 987 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2053thin sample | 303 | 82.7% | 139 min | 0.66% | B+ |
| All American Airlines on SAT–PHX | 987 | 79.9% | 115 min | 0.71% | B+ |
| All carriers on SAT–PHX | 2,509 | 81.2% | 76 min | 0.40% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights90.1%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights90.7%
- Apr–Jun 202646 flights58.7%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights71.2%
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2053 did best on Tuesday at 88.9% on time and worst on Monday at 73.8%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2053 runs when it is late
AA 2053 often beats the schedule: 100 of 300 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When AA 2053 is late it tends to be very late: 28 of its 52 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 18 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early100 flights33.3%
- Within 15 min148 flights49.3%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.7%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late18 flights6.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 300 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 54 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2053
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 March 2026, 21 hours 13 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2026 | 21 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 January 2026 | 8 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 March 2026 | 7 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 June 2026 | 6 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 January 2026 | 6 hours 25 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why AA 2053 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 7,202 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
- 5%National Airspace System
61% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,202 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 7,202 delay minutes reported on AA 2053.
Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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.
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. 303 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
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For a booking, read AA 2053 as 82.7% on time with 0.66% cancelled over 303 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- SAT to PHX, every carrier and departure
- PHX to SAT, the return direction
- San Antonio International (SAT) delay statistics
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.