Flight number record

AA 254

American Airlines · Kahului to Los Angeles

Route: OGG → LAX
Departs: 14:46
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 254, check with American Airlines.

AA 254 lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.6 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

On time

79.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights

Avg delay

154 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When AA 254 flies

AA 254 flies OGG to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:46, used on 42 of 365 flights, with 15:03 (42 flights) and 13:03 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:4642 flights11.5%
Departs 15:0342 flights11.5%
Departs 13:0340 flights11.0%

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 14:46 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 254 runs 8 points better at 79.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 254 next to OGG to LAX

Every carrier on OGG to LAX combined arrived on time 80.8% of the time across 2,116 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 82.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 6 points.

AA 254 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 254	365	79.9%	154 min	0.27%	B+
All American Airlines on OGG–LAX	580	82.3%	205 min	0.52%	B+
All carriers on OGG–LAX	2,116	80.8%	91 min	0.80%	B+
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 254 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 254 held fairly steady: 82.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 75.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 84.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights82.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights77.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.6%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 254 did best on Wednesday at 88.5% on time and worst on Friday at 69.2%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 254 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 45% of the 11,000 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.

Carrier
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
44%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
1%

44% 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 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 34 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 11,265 delay minutes reported on AA 254.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, below the national 1.81% 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 8.1%. 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 2.6 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

Booking AA 254

For a booking, read AA 254 as 79.9% on time with 0.27% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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