Flight number record
AA 28
American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York
- Route
- LAX → JFK
- Departs
- 22:52
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 28, check with American Airlines.
AA 28 lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five 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 356 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.53%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
7.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 356 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 28 flies
AA 28 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:52, used on 89 of 356 flights, with 22:30 (52 flights) and 23:10 (48 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 22:5289 flights25.0%
- Departs 22:3052 flights14.6%
- Departs 23:1048 flights13.5%
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 22:52 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 28 runs 9 points better at 79.2%. 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 28 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 28 is about level with 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 beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 28thin sample | 356 | 79.2% | 94 min | 2.53% | B |
| 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 28 quarter by quarter
AA 28 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 88.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 61.5%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 89 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 flights84.4%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights79.5%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights61.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 28 did best on Thursday at 85.4% on time and worst on Friday at 73.1%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 28 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 6,779 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.
- 58%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,921 of the 6,779 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,779 delay minutes reported on AA 28.
Cancellations run at 2.53%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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
7.2% 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 2,475 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.
Every one of the 356 flights under AA 28 in the data flew LAX to JFK. 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. 356 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 28
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 28: 2.53% of its 356 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 960 on the same route84.4%
- American Airlines 118 on the same route85.8%
- Delta Air Lines 934 on the same route89.4%
- Delta Air Lines 958 on the same route81.5%
- American Airlines 274 on the same route60.8%
- American Airlines 307 on the same route75.4%
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
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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.