Flight number record
AA 274
American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York
- Route
- LAX → JFK
- Departs
- 13:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 274, check with American Airlines.
AA 274 earns a D, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 57.9% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 19 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 274 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 194 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
57.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.75%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
20.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 74 of 364 flights, with 12:05 (51 flights) and 12:45 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 13:0074 flights20.3%
- Departs 12:0551 flights14.0%
- Departs 12:4542 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 13:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 274 runs 20 points worse at 57.9%. 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 274 next to LAX to JFK
Every carrier on LAX to JFK combined arrived on time 77.5% of the time across 10,289 flights, so AA 274 is 20 points behind it. American flew 3,303 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 274thin sample | 364 | 57.9% | 95 min | 2.75% | D |
| All American Airlines on LAX–JFK | 3,303 | 74.9% | 112 min | 2.66% | C |
| All carriers on LAX–JFK | 10,289 | 77.5% | 90 min | 2.90% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 Jul–Sep 2026 at 46.6%, a swing of 21 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights67.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights54.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights58.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights46.6%
Scale runs 40% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 274 ranged from 53.1% on Friday to 61.2% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 274 runs when it is late
The 147 late arrivals split 40 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 72 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early84 flights24.1%
- Within 15 min118 flights33.8%
- 15–29 min late40 flights11.5%
- 30–59 min late35 flights10.0%
- 1–2 hours late41 flights11.7%
- 2+ hours late31 flights8.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 349 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
18 of 132 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 33 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 JFK.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 274
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 December 2025, 18 hours 9 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 December 2025 | 18 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 July 2026 | 9 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 April 2026 | 8 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 June 2026 | 8 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 April 2026 | 7 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 274 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 24%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 48 to one. The split is drawn from 13,942 delay minutes reported on AA 274.
Cancellations run at 2.75%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
20.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 274: 2.75% of its 364 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to LAX, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 934 on the same route86.7%
- Delta Air Lines 960 on the same route83.1%
- American Airlines 118 on the same route83.6%
- American Airlines 307 on the same route74.6%
- Delta Air Lines 958 on the same route82.4%
- American Airlines 238 on the same route67.0%
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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.