Flight number record
AA 274
American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York
- Route
- LAX → JFK
- Departs
- 13:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 274, check with American Airlines.
AA 274 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 274 runs 17 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 168 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
60.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 352 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
18.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 274 flies
AA 274 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:00, used on 73 of 364 flights, with 12:45 (68 flights) and 12:30 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:0073 flights20.1%
- Departs 12:4568 flights18.7%
- Departs 12:3040 flights11.0%
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 13:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 274 runs 18 points worse at 60.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 274 next to LAX to JFK
Every carrier on LAX to JFK combined arrived on time 79.1% of the time across 10,287 flights, so AA 274 is 18 points behind it. American flew 3,242 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 274thin sample | 364 | 60.8% | 90 min | 2.47% | D |
| All American Airlines on LAX–JFK | 3,242 | 76.7% | 112 min | 2.19% | B |
| All carriers on LAX–JFK | 10,287 | 79.1% | 92 min | 2.04% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 274 quarter by quarter
AA 274 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 54.1%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 flights62.2%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights67.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights54.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights58.6%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 274 did best on Monday at 66.0% on time and worst on Wednesday at 53.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 274 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 12,000 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.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 24%Carrier
- 0%Security
47% 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 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 47 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 12,391 delay minutes reported on AA 274.
Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.82%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 18.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 2,475 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including RDU to MIA (1), but none flew often enough under AA 274 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to JFK only.
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 274
For a booking, AA 274 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 18.2% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to LAX, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 958 on the same route81.5%
- American Airlines 307 on the same route75.4%
- American Airlines 238 on the same route69.3%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.