Flight number record

AA 697

American Airlines · Phoenix to Lihue

Route: PHX → LIH
Departs: 11:59
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in six 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 365 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 697's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 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 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:5952 flights14.2%
Departs 11:3244 flights12.1%
Departs 10:3540 flights11.0%

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 11:59 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 697 runs 4 points better at 83.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 697 next to PHX to LIH

Every carrier on PHX to LIH combined arrived on time 82.1% of the time across 384 flights, so AA 697 is about level with it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

AA 697 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 697	365	83.1%	57 min	0.00%	B+
All American Airlines on PHX–LIH	384	82.1%	55 min	0.00%	B+
All carriers on PHX–LIH	384	82.1%	55 min	0.00%	B+
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 697 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 697 held fairly steady: 84.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 78.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights84.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights83.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights78.9%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 697 did best on Sunday at 92.3% on time and worst on Saturday at 70.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 697 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 3,445 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
51%
Carrier
25%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
2%

51% 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 3,445 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 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 3,445 delay minutes reported on AA 697.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.3% 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 2,979 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

Booking AA 697

For a booking, read AA 697 as 83.1% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 365 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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