OnTimeStats

Airline on-time performance

AA

American Airlines

Data through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS
On-time rate73%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled1.8%of scheduled flights

based on 973,653 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

Arrival performance

How this airline's flights land

System-wide arrival outcomes across every route this carrier flies.

73%of this carrier's flights arrived on time
(within 15 min of schedule)
  • On time73%
  • 15–59 min late15%
  • 1–2 hr late6%
  • 2 hr+ late4%
  • Cancelled or diverted2%

Arrival outcomes for this carrier's flights. Last segment = cancelled or diverted (diverted flights are not separately tracked for carriers).

Bad day: 1 in 10 flights arrives more than 60 min late.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

Most reliable

Best routes

LAX → PBI95%TUL → LAX92%DAL → MCI92%SMF → STL92%HNL → SJC91%DSM → STL91%KOA → PHX91%HNL → STL91%LIT → STL91%LIH → PHX91%

Least reliable

Worst routes

TVC → DFW46%DFW → ALB49%LGA → IAH51%DCA → SAT52%DFW → ECP54%DFW → SYR55%MIA → PDX55%AVL → DFW56%MIA → SAV56%DAL → LGA56%

Carrier lineage

Trans World Airlines

TWA merged into American

Carrier lineage

US Airways

US Airways merged into American

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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.