Flight number record
AA 59
American Airlines · Los Angeles to Kailua-Kona
- Route
- LAX → KOA
- Departs
- 11:05
- Flights
- 276
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 59, check with American Airlines.
AA 59 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 276 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 274 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.36%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 276 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.
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Schedule
When AA 59 flies
AA 59 flies LAX to KOA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:05, used on 37 of 276 flights, with 13:30 (32 flights) and 10:58 (30 flights) next.
- Departs 11:0537 flights13.4%
- Departs 13:3032 flights11.6%
- Departs 10:5830 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 11:05 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 59 runs level with that at 77.0%. 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 59 next to LAX to KOA
Every carrier on LAX to KOA combined arrived on time 81.8% of the time across 1,601 flights, so AA 59 is 5 points behind it. 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 59thin sample | 276 | 77.0% | 66 min | 0.36% | B+ |
| All American Airlines on LAX–KOAthin sample | 350 | 74.9% | 65 min | 0.57% | C+ |
| All carriers on LAX–KOA | 1,601 | 81.8% | 52 min | 0.94% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 59 quarter by quarter
AA 59 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 72.1%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 55 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights80.5%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights72.7%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights80.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.1%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
By weekday, AA 59 did best on Saturday at 85.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 65.9%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 59 runs when it is late
AA 59 often beats the schedule: 97 of 274 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 63 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early97 flights35.4%
- Within 15 min114 flights41.6%
- 15–29 min late18 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late27 flights9.9%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 274 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 68 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 21 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 16 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 KOA.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 59
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 August 2026, 7 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2026 | 7 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 1 August 2026 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 January 2026 | 4 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 January 2026 | 2 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 February 2026 | 2 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 59 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 4,167 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,167 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 4,167 delay minutes reported on AA 59.
Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.6% 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 2,504 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 276 flights under AA 59 in the data flew LAX to KOA. 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. 276 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.
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For a booking, read AA 59 as 77.0% on time with 0.36% cancelled over 276 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.