Flight number record
AA 2590
American Airlines · Santa Ana to Chicago
- Route
- SNA → ORD
- Departs
- 07:45
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2590, check with American Airlines.
AA 2590 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2590's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
125 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 2590 flies
AA 2590 flies SNA to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:45, used on 208 of 364 flights, with 07:55 (67 flights) next.
- Departs 07:45208 flights57.1%
- Departs 07:5567 flights18.4%
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 07:45 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2590 runs 2 points worse at 87.0%. 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 2590 next to SNA to ORD
Every carrier on SNA to ORD combined arrived on time 76.8% of the time across 2,164 flights, so AA 2590 is 10 points ahead of it. American flew 1,123 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2590thin sample | 364 | 87.0% | 125 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| All American Airlines on SNA–ORD | 1,123 | 76.1% | 86 min | 1.69% | B |
| All carriers on SNA–ORD | 2,164 | 76.8% | 76 min | 1.06% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2590 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2590 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 88.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 86.4% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.9%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights82.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights86.4%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
By weekday, AA 2590 did best on Friday at 92.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2590 runs when it is late
AA 2590 often beats the schedule: 187 of 354 completed flights, 53%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 46 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early187 flights52.8%
- Within 15 min121 flights34.2%
- 15–29 min late15 flights4.2%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 51 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 19 still arrived on time. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2590
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 August 2026, 25 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across August, October, April, November and January, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2026 | 25 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 October 2025 | 13 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 April 2026 | 5 hours 35 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 29 November 2025 | 5 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 January 2026 | 5 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2590 runs late
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 5,764 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,619 of the 5,764 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,764 delay minutes reported on AA 2590.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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
5.1% 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 2.1 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
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.
Every one of the 364 flights under AA 2590 in the data flew SNA to ORD. 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. 364 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 2590
For a booking, AA 2590 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.0% on time and 0.82% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- SNA to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to SNA, the return direction
- John Wayne Airport (SNA) delay statistics
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.