Flight number record

AA 3

American Airlines · New York to Los Angeles

Route: JFK → LAX
Departs: 11:00
Flights: 358
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 3, check with American Airlines.

AA 3 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 3's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights

Avg delay

127 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.96%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 358 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% 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 3 flies

AA 3 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 250 of 358 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:00250 flights69.8%

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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 3 runs 8 points better at 86.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 3 next to JFK to LAX

Every carrier on JFK to LAX combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 10,284 flights, so AA 3 is 9 points ahead of it. American flew 3,237 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

AA 3 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 3thin sample	358	86.3%	127 min	1.96%	A
All American Airlines on JFK–LAX	3,237	80.3%	95 min	2.04%	B
All carriers on JFK–LAX	10,284	77.6%	77 min	1.94%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 3 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 3 held fairly steady: 87.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights87.0%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights85.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.9%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights85.9%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 3 ranged from 81.2% on Sunday to 90.4% on Wednesday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AA 3 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 6,085 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
49%
Carrier
37%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
2%

49% 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 6,085 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 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 6,085 delay minutes reported on AA 3.

Cancellations sit at 1.96% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.0% 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 about 2.1 hours, 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 358 flights under AA 3 in the data flew JFK to LAX. 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. 358 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 3

For a booking, read AA 3 as 86.3% on time with 1.96% cancelled over 358 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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.

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