Flight number record
AA 307
American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York
- Route
- LAX → JFK
- Departs
- 08:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 307, check with American Airlines.
AA 307 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 3.6 hours behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights
Avg delay
214 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
16.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.4% 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 307 flies
AA 307 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 132 of 364 flights, with 08:10 (87 flights) and 07:45 (60 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 08:00132 flights36.3%
- Departs 08:1087 flights23.9%
- Departs 07:4560 flights16.5%
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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 307 runs 9 points worse at 75.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
AA 307 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 307 is 4 points behind 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%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 307thin sample | 364 | 75.4% | 214 min | 1.92% | 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 307 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 307 held fairly steady: 80.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 71.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 71.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights80.9%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights77.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights71.1%
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 307 did best on Thursday at 81.6% on time and worst on Saturday at 68.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 307 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 65% of the 19,000 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.
- 65%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
65% 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 19,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 65 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 18,593 delay minutes reported on AA 307.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.10%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 16.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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 364 flights under AA 307 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. 364 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 307
For a booking, AA 307 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.4% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
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 238 on the same route69.3%
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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.