Flight number record
AA 3
American Airlines · New York to Los Angeles
- Route
- JFK → LAX
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 358
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 3, check with American Airlines.
AA 3 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.3 hours. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 3's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 76 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
136 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.96%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 358 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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.
- Departs 11:00250 flights69.8%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 3 runs 7 points better at 84.9%. 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 3 next to JFK to LAX
Every carrier on JFK to LAX combined arrived on time 75.4% of the time across 10,285 flights, so AA 3 is 10 points ahead of it. American flew 3,298 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 3thin sample | 358 | 84.9% | 136 min | 1.96% | B |
| All American Airlines on JFK–LAX | 3,298 | 78.6% | 96 min | 2.61% | B |
| All carriers on JFK–LAX | 10,285 | 75.4% | 78 min | 2.78% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 3 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 3 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.9% in Jan–Mar 2026, 85.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 80.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights85.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.9%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights85.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.6%
Scale runs 70% to 90%.
By weekday, AA 3 ranged from 77.1% on Sunday to 88.5% on Wednesday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 3 runs when it is late
AA 3 often beats the schedule: 166 of 350 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When AA 3 is late it tends to be very late: 31 of its 53 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 19 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early166 flights47.4%
- Within 15 min131 flights37.4%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.9%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late19 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 3
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 September 2025, 11 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2025 | 11 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 February 2026 | 8 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 June 2026 | 7 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 6 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 July 2026 | 6 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 3 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 7,219 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,219 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 25 to one. The split is drawn from 7,219 delay minutes reported on AA 3.
Cancellations sit at 1.96% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.9% 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 2.3 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
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For a booking, read AA 3 as 84.9% on time with 1.96% cancelled over 358 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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- JFK to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to JFK, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 738 on the same route72.7%
- American Airlines 171 on the same route88.1%
- Delta Air Lines 773 on the same route78.6%
- American Airlines 117 on the same route69.1%
- American Airlines 255 on the same route78.3%
- American Airlines 341 on the same route76.4%
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.