Flight number record

AA 2772

American Airlines · New York to Austin

Route: JFK → AUS
Departs: 20:30
Flights: 312
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2772, check with American Airlines.

AA 2772 lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.6 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 312 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

On time

76.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights

Avg delay

154 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.13%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 312 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 2772 flies

AA 2772 flies JFK to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:30, used on 61 of 312 flights, with 17:53 (44 flights) and 18:00 (39 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:3061 flights19.6%
Departs 17:5344 flights14.1%
Departs 18:0039 flights12.5%

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 20:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 2772 runs 6 points better at 76.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

AA 2772 next to JFK to AUS

Every carrier on JFK to AUS combined arrived on time 82.2% of the time across 2,160 flights, so AA 2772 is 6 points behind it. American flew 882 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

AA 2772 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2772thin sample	312	76.7%	154 min	5.13%	B−
All American Airlines on JFK–AUS	882	80.0%	126 min	3.29%	B−
All carriers on JFK–AUS	2,160	82.2%	91 min	2.59%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2772 quarter by quarter

AA 2772 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 85.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.9%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 78 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 flights74.7%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights67.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.5%
Apr–Jun 202641 flights81.6%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2772 did best on Tuesday at 88.6% on time and worst on Thursday at 65.9%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2772 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 10,000 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.

Carrier
47%
Late-arriving aircraft
41%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
2%

41% 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 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 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 10,452 delay minutes reported on AA 2772.

Cancellations run at 5.13%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.6% 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 1,521 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 PHX to TPA (41), but none flew often enough under AA 2772 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to JFK to AUS only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 312 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 2772

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2772: 5.13% of its 312 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.6 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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.

Key figures