Flight number record
AA 297
American Airlines · Los Angeles to Honolulu
- Route
- LAX → HNL
- Departs
- 17:13
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 297, check with American Airlines.
AA 297 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 297 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 356 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 297 flies
AA 297 flies LAX to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:13, used on 54 of 356 flights, with 18:07 (46 flights) and 17:53 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 17:1354 flights15.2%
- Departs 18:0746 flights12.9%
- Departs 17:5342 flights11.8%
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 17:13 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 297 runs 5 points better at 72.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 297 next to LAX to HNL
Every carrier on LAX to HNL combined arrived on time 76.2% of the time across 5,540 flights, so AA 297 is 3 points behind it. American flew 1,182 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 297thin sample | 356 | 72.9% | 61 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| All American Airlines on LAX–HNL | 1,182 | 76.2% | 61 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–HNL | 5,540 | 76.2% | 73 min | 0.51% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 297 quarter by quarter
AA 297 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 62.2%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 71 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 202583 flights85.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights73.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights62.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights66.1%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
By weekday, AA 297 did best on Saturday at 80.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 55.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 297 runs when it is late
AA 297 often beats the schedule: 110 of 354 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 96 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 31 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early110 flights31.1%
- Within 15 min148 flights41.8%
- 15–29 min late35 flights9.9%
- 30–59 min late30 flights8.5%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
26 of 98 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 HNL.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 297
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 December 2025, 5 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 December 2025 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 February 2026 | 4 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 March 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 May 2026 | 4 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 July 2026 | 3 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 297 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 5,860 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,860 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 50 to one. The split is drawn from 5,860 delay minutes reported on AA 297.
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
8.8% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,556 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 297 in the data flew LAX to HNL. 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
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For a booking, read AA 297 as 72.9% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 356 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to HNL, every carrier and departure
- HNL to LAX, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 443 on the same route82.1%
- Delta Air Lines 465 on the same route77.4%
- Delta Air Lines 480 on the same route82.2%
- American Airlines 31 on the same route81.9%
- American Airlines 143 on the same route79.9%
- United Airlines 1170 on the same route79.3%
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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.