Flight number record

AA 76

American Airlines · New York to San Francisco

Route: JFK → SFO
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 336
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 76, check with American Airlines.

AA 76 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 76's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 114 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 327 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.68%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

3.1%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 336 flights between September 2025 and August 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.

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Schedule

When AA 76 flies

AA 76 flies JFK to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 208 of 336 flights, with 06:30 (52 flights) and 07:30 (35 flights) next.

Departs 06:00208 flights61.9%
Departs 06:3052 flights15.5%
Departs 07:3035 flights10.4%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 76 runs level with that at 88.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

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Against the route

AA 76 next to JFK to SFO

Every carrier on JFK to SFO combined arrived on time 71.4% of the time across 6,800 flights, so AA 76 is 17 points ahead of it. American flew 1,501 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 14 points.

AA 76 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 76thin sample	336	88.7%	64 min	2.68%	A
All American Airlines on JFK–SFO	1,501	74.6%	67 min	2.86%	C
All carriers on JFK–SFO	6,800	71.4%	69 min	2.57%	C
American Airlines, whole network	988,892	74.7%	85 min	2.14%	C

Across the year

AA 76 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 76 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.9% in Jan–Mar 2026, 90.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 85.0% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
Oct–Dec 202583 flights89.2%
Jan–Mar 202678 flights88.9%
Apr–Jun 202683 flights90.2%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.0%

Scale runs 75% to 95%.

By weekday, AA 76 did best on Friday at 93.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 78.8%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late AA 76 runs when it is late

AA 76 often beats the schedule: 139 of 327 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 19 of the 37 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 10 reached an hour or more.

15+ min early139 flights42.5%
Within 15 min151 flights46.2%
15–29 min late19 flights5.8%
30–59 min late8 flights2.4%
1–2 hours late4 flights1.2%
2+ hours late6 flights1.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 327 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 25 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 9 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 21 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 SFO.

The worst days

Worst days for AA 76

The latest arrival of the period was on 8 February 2026, 9 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).

The latest arrivals of AA 76 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
8 February 2026	9 hours 45 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
4 April 2026	3 hours	Carrier
2 June 2026	2 hours 44 minutes	Carrier
24 September 2025	2 hours 41 minutes	Carrier
16 September 2025	2 hours 28 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why AA 76 runs late

Carrier accounts for 43% of the 2,373 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
43%
National Airspace System
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
21%
Extreme weather
1%

35% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 828 minutes out of 2,373, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,373 delay minutes reported on AA 76.

Cancellations run at 2.68%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% 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 2,586 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 336 flights under AA 76 in the data flew JFK to SFO. 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. 336 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 76

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 76: 2.68% of its 336 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures