Flight number record
AA 2408
American Airlines · Philadelphia to Los Angeles
- Route
- PHL → LAX
- Departs
- 10:45
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2408, check with American Airlines.
AA 2408 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2408's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 42 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2408 flies
AA 2408 flies PHL to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:45, used on 86 of 365 flights, with 11:00 (77 flights) and 10:35 (62 flights) next.
- Departs 10:4586 flights23.6%
- Departs 11:0077 flights21.1%
- Departs 10:3562 flights17.0%
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 10:45 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 2408 runs 2 points worse at 81.5%. 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 2408 next to PHL to LAX
Every carrier on PHL to LAX combined arrived on time 78.3% of the time across 2,380 flights, so AA 2408 is 3 points ahead of it. American flew 2,335 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2408 | 365 | 81.5% | 77 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| All American Airlines on PHL–LAX | 2,335 | 78.4% | 70 min | 1.58% | B |
| All carriers on PHL–LAX | 2,380 | 78.3% | 70 min | 1.55% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2408 quarter by quarter
AA 2408 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 73.8%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 73 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights73.8%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 2408 did best on Friday at 92.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2408 runs when it is late
AA 2408 often beats the schedule: 117 of 362 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 67 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights32.3%
- Within 15 min178 flights49.2%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late15 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 74 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 26 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 19 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2408
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 May 2026, 6 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2026 | 6 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 May 2026 | 5 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 February 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 October 2025 | 4 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 January 2026 | 3 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2408 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 5,181 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,181 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 5,181 delay minutes reported on AA 2408.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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
6.9% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,402 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 365 flights under AA 2408 in the data flew PHL to LAX. 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. 365 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 2408 as 81.5% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.