Flight number record
AA 271
American Airlines · Los Angeles to Kahului
- Route
- LAX → OGG
- Departs
- 08:52
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 271, check with American Airlines.
AA 271 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 271's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 365 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When AA 271 flies
AA 271 flies LAX to OGG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:52, used on 66 of 365 flights, with 09:19 (54 flights) and 10:46 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 08:5266 flights18.1%
- Departs 09:1954 flights14.8%
- Departs 10:4642 flights11.5%
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 08:52 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 271 runs 2 points worse at 81.6%. 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 271 next to LAX to OGG
Every carrier on LAX to OGG combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 2,170 flights, so AA 271 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 78.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 271 | 365 | 81.6% | 81 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All American Airlines on LAX–OGG | 580 | 78.9% | 77 min | 0.17% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–OGG | 2,170 | 81.6% | 59 min | 0.60% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 271 quarter by quarter
AA 271 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 73 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights74.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights79.0%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
By weekday, AA 271 did best on Saturday at 90.4% on time and worst on Monday at 66.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 271 runs when it is late
AA 271 often beats the schedule: 135 of 365 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 67 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early135 flights37.0%
- Within 15 min163 flights44.7%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late17 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 365 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 59 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. In the other direction, 24 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at OGG.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 271
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 March 2026, 23 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 March 2026 | 23 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 August 2026 | 7 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 October 2025 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 March 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 August 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 271 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 5,455 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,455 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 5,455 delay minutes reported on AA 271.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% 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
6.6% 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 a little over an hour, 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 271 in the data flew LAX to OGG. 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.
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For a booking, read AA 271 as 81.6% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to OGG, every carrier and departure
- OGG to LAX, the return direction
- United Airlines 417 on the same route92.9%
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Kahului Airport (OGG) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
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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.