Flight number record
AA 302
American Airlines · New York to Los Angeles
- Route
- JFK → LAX
- Departs
- 17:29
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 302, check with American Airlines.
AA 302 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
120 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.05%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 302 flies
AA 302 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:29, used on 106 of 361 flights, with 17:30 (59 flights) and 17:25 (55 flights) next.
- Departs 17:29106 flights29.4%
- Departs 17:3059 flights16.3%
- Departs 17:2555 flights15.2%
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 17:29 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 302 runs 7 points better at 74.6%. 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 302 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 302 is about level with 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%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 302thin sample | 361 | 74.6% | 120 min | 3.05% | C− |
| 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 302 quarter by quarter
AA 302 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.4%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 90 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights67.4%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights75.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights69.0%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 302 did best on Tuesday at 83.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 67.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 302 runs when it is late
AA 302 often beats the schedule: 150 of 350 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 89 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 44 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early150 flights42.9%
- Within 15 min111 flights31.7%
- 15–29 min late25 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late20 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late25 flights7.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 69 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 31 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 302
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 May 2026, 17 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2026 | 17 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 16 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 November 2025 | 15 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 January 2026 | 5 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 November 2025 | 5 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 302 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 30 to one. The split is drawn from 10,667 delay minutes reported on AA 302.
Cancellations run at 3.05%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 361 flights under AA 302 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. 361 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 302
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 302: 3.05% of its 361 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- 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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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.