Flight number record

AA 32

American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York

Route: LAX → JFK
Departs: 11:30
Flights: 350
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 32, check with American Airlines.

AA 32 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 350 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 32 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 70 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 340 completed flights

Avg delay

118 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.29%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

15.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 350 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.6% 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 32 flies

AA 32 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:30, used on 85 of 350 flights, with 11:45 (58 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:3085 flights24.3%
Departs 11:4558 flights16.6%

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 11:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 32 runs 8 points worse at 70.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 32 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 32 is 9 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%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

AA 32 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 32thin sample	350	70.6%	118 min	2.29%	C
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 32 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 32 held fairly steady: 68.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 71.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 66.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 74.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights68.9%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights71.9%
Jan–Mar 202677 flights66.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.4%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 32 did best on Tuesday at 80.4% on time and worst on Wednesday at 56.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 32 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 12,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
44%
Carrier
30%
National Airspace System
26%

44% 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 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 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 11,842 delay minutes reported on AA 32.

Cancellations sit at 2.29% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.57%.

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. 15.6% 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 350 flights under AA 32 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. 350 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 32

For a booking, AA 32 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 15.6% 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.

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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