Flight number record

AA 2590

American Airlines · Santa Ana to Chicago

Route: SNA → ORD
Departs: 07:45
Flights: 362
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2590's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights

Avg delay

114 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.38%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2590 flies

AA 2590 flies SNA to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:45, used on 156 of 362 flights, with 07:55 (118 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:45156 flights43.1%
Departs 07:55118 flights32.6%

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 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 87.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AA 2590 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 2590 is 11 points ahead of 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 beats by 13 points.

AA 2590 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2590thin sample	362	87.3%	114 min	1.38%	A
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 2590 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 2590 held fairly steady: 88.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 88.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202590 flights88.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.9%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights82.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2590 did best on Friday at 92.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 77.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2590 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 5,108 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
41%
Carrier
39%
Extreme weather
10%
National Airspace System
10%

41% 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 5,108 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 5,108 delay minutes reported on AA 2590.

Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.10%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.4% 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 close to two 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 362 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. 362 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: 87.3% on time and 1.38% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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