Flight number record

AA 2285

American Airlines · Santa Ana to Chicago

Route: SNA → ORD
Departs: 11:41
Flights: 276
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2285, check with American Airlines.

AA 2285 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 276 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2285 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 88 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 269 completed flights

Avg delay

101 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.45%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

15.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 276 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When AA 2285 flies

AA 2285 flies SNA to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:41, used on 67 of 276 flights, with 11:42 (64 flights) and 11:35 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:4167 flights24.3%
Departs 11:4264 flights23.2%
Departs 11:3533 flights12.0%

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 11:41 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 2285 runs 10 points worse at 68.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 2285 next to SNA to ORD

Every carrier on SNA to ORD combined arrived on time 76.7% of the time across 2,212 flights, so AA 2285 is 8 points behind it. American flew 1,172 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

AA 2285 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2285thin sample	276	68.8%	101 min	1.45%	C
All American Airlines on SNA–ORD	1,172	74.6%	85 min	1.79%	C
All carriers on SNA–ORD	2,212	76.7%	75 min	1.22%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2285 quarter by quarter

AA 2285 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 77.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 62.9%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 92 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 202592 flights62.9%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights77.0%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights65.9%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2285 did best on Thursday at 84.2% on time and worst on Monday at 50.0%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 34 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2285 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 8,490 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
40%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
6%

40% 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 8,490 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 8,490 delay minutes reported on AA 2285.

Cancellations sit at 1.45% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.09%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 15.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 1,726 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.

AA 2285 is not only a SNA to ORD flight. It also flew ORD to SNA (250 flights, 82.9% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 276 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.

Other routes flown as AA 2285
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ORD to SNAthin sample	250	82.9%	56 min	1.60%	B

What to do with this

Booking AA 2285

For a booking, AA 2285 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 15.2% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

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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