Flight number record
AA 266
American Airlines · Lihue to Los Angeles
- Route
- LIH → LAX
- Departs
- 14:12
- Flights
- 259
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 266, check with American Airlines.
AA 266 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 266's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 49 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 258 completed flights
Avg delay
114 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.39%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 259 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 266 flies
AA 266 flies LIH to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:12, used on 44 of 259 flights, with 12:57 (42 flights) and 13:19 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 14:1244 flights17.0%
- Departs 12:5742 flights16.2%
- Departs 13:1934 flights13.1%
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 14:12 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AA 266 runs 10 points better at 82.2%. 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 266 next to LIH to LAX
Every carrier on LIH to LAX combined arrived on time 83.7% of the time across 1,605 flights, so AA 266 is 2 points behind it. American flew 446 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 266thin sample | 259 | 82.2% | 114 min | 0.39% | B+ |
| All American Airlines on LIH–LAX | 446 | 84.7% | 110 min | 0.67% | B+ |
| All carriers on LIH–LAX | 1,605 | 83.7% | 67 min | 0.93% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 266 quarter by quarter
AA 266 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 76.6%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 65 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 202577 flights76.6%
- Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights87.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.3%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 266 did best on Wednesday at 93.9% on time and worst on Friday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 266 runs when it is late
AA 266 often beats the schedule: 93 of 258 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 46 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early93 flights36.0%
- Within 15 min119 flights46.1%
- 15–29 min late15 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 258 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 48 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 266
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 26 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 26 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 July 2026 | 21 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 August 2026 | 4 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 April 2026 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 December 2025 | 1 hour 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 266 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 5,234 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,234 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 56 to one. The split is drawn from 5,234 delay minutes reported on AA 266.
Cancellations are rare at 0.39%, 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
6.2% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,615 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 259 flights under AA 266 in the data flew LIH 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. 259 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.
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For a booking, read AA 266 as 82.2% on time with 0.39% cancelled over 259 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.