Flight number record

AA 31

American Airlines · Los Angeles to Honolulu

Route: LAX → HNL
Departs: 08:30
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 31, check with American Airlines.

AA 31 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 31's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 49 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 365 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When AA 31 flies

AA 31 flies LAX to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:30, used on 65 of 365 flights, with 08:04 (54 flights) and 10:49 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:3065 flights17.8%
Departs 08:0454 flights14.8%
Departs 10:4944 flights12.1%

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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 31 runs level with that at 82.5%. 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 31 next to LAX to HNL

Every carrier on LAX to HNL combined arrived on time 76.9% of the time across 5,459 flights, so AA 31 is 6 points ahead of it. American flew 1,183 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%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

AA 31 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 31	365	82.5%	52 min	0.00%	B+
All American Airlines on LAX–HNL	1,183	76.7%	57 min	0.17%	B+
All carriers on LAX–HNL	5,459	76.9%	73 min	0.49%	B+
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 31 quarter by quarter

AA 31 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 88.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 69.2%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights88.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights69.2%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 31 did best on Friday at 88.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 31 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,302 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
22%

38% 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 3,302 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 38 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 3,302 delay minutes reported on AA 31.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

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 365 flights under AA 31 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. 365 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 31

For a booking, read AA 31 as 82.5% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 365 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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