Flight number record
AA 32
American Airlines · Los Angeles to New York
- Route
- LAX → JFK
- Departs
- 11:45
- Flights
- 350
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 2.1 hours behind schedule. That rests on 350 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 32 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 62 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights
Avg delay
128 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.57%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
15.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 350 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 32 flies
AA 32 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:45, used on 59 of 350 flights, with 11:30 (55 flights) and 11:05 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 11:4559 flights16.9%
- Departs 11:3055 flights15.7%
- Departs 11:0538 flights10.9%
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 11:45 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 32 runs 7 points worse at 71.1%. 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 32 next to LAX to JFK
Every carrier on LAX to JFK combined arrived on time 77.5% of the time across 10,289 flights, so AA 32 is 6 points behind it. American flew 3,303 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 32thin sample | 350 | 71.1% | 128 min | 2.57% | C |
| All American Airlines on LAX–JFK | 3,303 | 74.9% | 112 min | 2.66% | C |
| All carriers on LAX–JFK | 10,289 | 77.5% | 90 min | 2.90% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 32 quarter by quarter
AA 32 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 76.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 66.2%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 70 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 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights71.9%
- Jan–Mar 202677 flights66.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights67.8%
Scale runs 60% to 80%.
By weekday, AA 32 did best on Tuesday at 81.2% on time and worst on Wednesday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 32 runs when it is late
AA 32 often beats the schedule: 96 of 339 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When AA 32 is late it tends to be very late: 53 of its 98 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 28 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early96 flights28.3%
- Within 15 min145 flights42.8%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late24 flights7.1%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights7.4%
- 2+ hours late28 flights8.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 339 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 97 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 JFK.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 32
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 January 2026, 27 hours 36 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 7 January 2026 | 27 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 March 2026 | 14 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 November 2025 | 9 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 November 2025 | 9 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 July 2026 | 7 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 32 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 13,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 39 to one. The split is drawn from 12,504 delay minutes reported on AA 32.
Cancellations run at 2.57%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
15.6% 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 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, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 32: 2.57% of its 350 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.1 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to LAX, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 960 on the same route83.1%
- American Airlines 118 on the same route83.6%
- American Airlines 307 on the same route74.6%
- Delta Air Lines 958 on the same route82.4%
- American Airlines 274 on the same route57.9%
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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.