Flight number record
AA 697
American Airlines · Phoenix to Lihue
- Route
- PHX → LIH
- Departs
- 11:59
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 697, check with American Airlines.
AA 697 lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 697's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 60 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 697 flies
AA 697 flies PHX to LIH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:59, used on 52 of 365 flights, with 11:32 (44 flights) and 10:35 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 11:5952 flights14.2%
- Departs 11:3244 flights12.1%
- Departs 10:3541 flights11.2%
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 11:59 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 697 runs 5 points better at 83.3%. 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 697 next to PHX to LIH
Every carrier on PHX to LIH combined arrived on time 82.3% of the time across 384 flights, so AA 697 is about level with it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 697 | 365 | 83.3% | 69 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| All American Airlines on PHX–LIH | 384 | 82.3% | 66 min | 0.26% | B+ |
| All carriers on PHX–LIH | 384 | 82.3% | 66 min | 0.26% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 697 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 697 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 78.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 86.4% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights83.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights78.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights86.4%
Scale runs 70% to 90%.
By weekday, AA 697 did best on Sunday at 88.5% on time and worst on Saturday at 74.0%. 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 697 runs when it is late
AA 697 often beats the schedule: 149 of 359 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early149 flights41.5%
- Within 15 min150 flights41.8%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late17 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 58 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. In the other direction, 19 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 LIH.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 697
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 August 2026, 19 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2026 | 19 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 August 2026 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 May 2026 | 3 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 October 2025 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 April 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 697 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 4,160 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 11% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,160 delay minutes reported on AA 697.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 2,979 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 365 flights under AA 697 in the data flew PHX to LIH. 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. 365 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 697 as 83.3% on time with 0.27% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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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.