Flight number record

AA 76

American Airlines · New York to San Francisco

Route: JFK → SFO
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 336
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 76's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 118 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 329 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.08%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 336 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 76 flies

AA 76 flies JFK to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 204 of 336 flights, with 06:30 (52 flights) and 07:30 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00204 flights60.7%
Departs 06:3052 flights15.5%
Departs 07:3035 flights10.4%

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 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 89.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AA 76 next to JFK to SFO

Every carrier on JFK to SFO combined arrived on time 74.1% of the time across 6,730 flights, so AA 76 is 15 points ahead of it. American flew 1,448 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 15 points.

AA 76 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 76thin sample	336	89.4%	64 min	2.08%	A
All American Airlines on JFK–SFO	1,448	77.2%	66 min	2.56%	B
All carriers on JFK–SFO	6,730	74.1%	71 min	1.92%	C
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 76 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 76 held fairly steady: 89.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of about a point is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.1%
Oct–Dec 202583 flights89.2%
Jan–Mar 202678 flights88.9%
Apr–Jun 202683 flights90.2%

Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 76 did best on Friday at 96.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 82.4%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 76 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 2,238 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.

Carrier
46%
National Airspace System
31%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,021 of the 2,238 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,238 delay minutes reported on AA 76.

Cancellations sit at 2.08% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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, read AA 76 as 89.4% on time with 2.08% cancelled over 336 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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