Flight number record
AA 254
American Airlines · Kahului to Los Angeles
- Route
- OGG → LAX
- Departs
- 13:14
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 254, check with American Airlines.
AA 254 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.4 hours on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
141 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
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 9 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 254 flies
AA 254 flies OGG to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:14, used on 66 of 365 flights, with 15:03 (42 flights) and 14:46 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 13:1466 flights18.1%
- Departs 15:0342 flights11.5%
- Departs 14:4642 flights11.5%
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 13:14 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 254 runs level with that at 80.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AA 254 next to OGG to LAX
Every carrier on OGG to LAX combined arrived on time 80.5% of the time across 2,169 flights, so AA 254 is about level with it. American flew 580 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 254 | 365 | 80.2% | 141 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| All American Airlines on OGG–LAX | 580 | 82.7% | 179 min | 0.52% | B+ |
| All carriers on OGG–LAX | 2,169 | 80.5% | 84 min | 0.88% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 254 quarter by quarter
AA 254 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.3%, a swing of 11 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 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights77.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights82.3%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
By weekday, AA 254 did best on Wednesday at 90.4% on time and worst on Friday at 73.1%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 254 runs when it is late
AA 254 often beats the schedule: 130 of 364 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 72 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early130 flights35.7%
- Within 15 min162 flights44.5%
- 15–29 min late27 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late20 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 65 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 23 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 254
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 29 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2025 | 29 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 November 2025 | 25 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 February 2026 | 25 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 March 2026 | 21 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 7 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 254 runs late
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 to one. The split is drawn from 10,176 delay minutes reported on AA 254.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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 about 2.4 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,485 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 254 in the data flew OGG 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 254 as 80.2% on time with 0.27% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- OGG to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to OGG, the return direction
- United Airlines 418 on the same route90.4%
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
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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.