Flight number record

AA 266

American Airlines · Lihue to Los Angeles

Route: LIH → LAX
Departs: 13:45
Flights: 259
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 259 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 266's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 259 completed flights

Avg delay

86 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 259 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 266 flies

AA 266 flies LIH to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:45, used on 50 of 259 flights, with 14:12 (44 flights) and 12:57 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:4550 flights19.3%
Departs 14:1244 flights17.0%
Departs 12:5741 flights15.8%

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 13:45 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 266 runs 4 points better at 82.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 266 next to LIH to LAX

Every carrier on LIH to LAX combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 1,539 flights, so AA 266 is about level with it. American flew 391 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

AA 266 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 266thin sample	259	82.6%	86 min	0.00%	B+
All American Airlines on LIH–LAX	391	84.4%	92 min	0.00%	B+
All carriers on LIH–LAX	1,539	83.2%	59 min	0.71%	B+
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 266 quarter by quarter

AA 266 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 87.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 76.6%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 86 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 202592 flights85.9%
Oct–Dec 202577 flights76.6%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
Apr–Jun 202685 flights87.1%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. 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 71.8%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 266 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 76% of the 3,868 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
76%
National Airspace System
13%
Carrier
11%

76% 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 3,868 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 76 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 3,868 delay minutes reported on AA 266.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.0% 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 an hour and a half, 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.

What to do with this

Booking AA 266

For a booking, read AA 266 as 82.6% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 259 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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