Flight number record

AA 341

American Airlines · New York to Los Angeles

Route: JFK → LAX
Departs: 15:30
Flights: 362
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 341, check with American Airlines.

AA 341 lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

On time

78.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.93%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 341 flies

AA 341 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:30, used on 226 of 362 flights, with 15:29 (51 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:30226 flights62.4%
Departs 15:2951 flights14.1%

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 15:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 341 runs 6 points better at 78.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 341 next to JFK to LAX

Every carrier on JFK to LAX combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 10,284 flights, so AA 341 is about level with it. American flew 3,237 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

AA 341 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 341thin sample	362	78.6%	64 min	1.93%	B
All American Airlines on JFK–LAX	3,237	80.3%	95 min	2.04%	B
All carriers on JFK–LAX	10,284	77.6%	77 min	1.94%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	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 90.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.8%, 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 flights90.1%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights70.8%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights74.1%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights78.9%

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

By weekday, AA 341 did best on Tuesday at 84.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 4,894 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
Carrier
34%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
3%

40% 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 4,894 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 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 4,894 delay minutes reported on AA 341.

Cancellations sit at 1.93% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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

Booking AA 341

For a booking, read AA 341 as 78.6% on time with 1.93% cancelled over 362 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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