Flight number record
AA 341
American Airlines · New York to Los Angeles
- Route
- JFK → LAX
- Departs
- 15:30
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 341, check with American Airlines.
AA 341 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 352 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.49%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 341 flies
AA 341 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:30, used on 194 of 362 flights.
- Departs 15:30194 flights53.6%
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 15:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AA 341 runs 5 points better at 76.4%. 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 341 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 341 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%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 341thin sample | 362 | 76.4% | 66 min | 2.49% | B |
| 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 341 quarter by quarter
AA 341 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.8%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 72 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights70.8%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights74.1%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights78.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.6%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, AA 341 did best on Tuesday at 84.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 68.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 341 runs when it is late
AA 341 often beats the schedule: 141 of 352 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 83 late arrivals split 33 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early141 flights40.1%
- Within 15 min128 flights36.4%
- 15–29 min late33 flights9.4%
- 30–59 min late22 flights6.3%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights5.1%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 352 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 83 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 29 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 29 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 341
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 December 2025, 9 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 December 2025 | 9 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 February 2026 | 7 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 February 2026 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 4 hours | Carrier |
| 12 June 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 341 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 5,455 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,455 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 5,455 delay minutes reported on AA 341.
Cancellations sit at 2.49% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 362 flights under AA 341 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. 362 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
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For a booking, read AA 341 as 76.4% on time with 2.49% cancelled over 362 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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- JFK to LAX, every carrier and departure
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- 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 300 on the same route69.8%
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.