American Airlines (AAL) on-time performance, October 2026
20,893 scheduled American Airlines departures in US airspace in October 2026, 70.2% of them on time. Measured from FAA departure data, updated every morning.
On time, day by day
Share of American Airlines departures within 15 minutes of schedule, by day. Light bars show each day's departures for context. Worst day: Thursday 1 October at 56.7%. Best: Wednesday 7 October at 76.8%.
Airports, ranked by on-time share
Airports with at least 30 American Airlines departures in the month.
| Airport | Departures | On time | 45+ min late | Avg delay (min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PUJ Punta Cana | 30 | 93.3% | 3.3% | -30.2 |
| SYR Syracuse | 33 | 90.9% | 0.0% | 2.8 |
| HNL Honolulu | 34 | 88.2% | 5.9% | 7.7 |
| NAS Nassau | 33 | 87.9% | 6.1% | 0.2 |
| OMA Omaha | 55 | 87.3% | 10.9% | 15.2 |
| CDG Paris | 35 | 85.7% | 8.6% | 6.3 |
| MAD Madrid | 41 | 85.4% | 4.9% | -3.9 |
| SFO San Francisco | 277 | 84.1% | 6.9% | 3.9 |
| SJU San Juan | 63 | 84.1% | 3.2% | 8.8 |
| BDL Windsor Locks | 76 | 82.9% | 13.2% | 19.4 |
| DTW Detroit | 81 | 82.7% | 8.6% | 7.3 |
| PVD Providence | 52 | 82.7% | 11.5% | 14.8 |
| RNO Reno | 45 | 82.2% | 8.9% | 8.2 |
| LHR London | 147 | 81.0% | 8.2% | 6.3 |
| MCI Kansas City | 115 | 80.9% | 13.0% | 18.1 |
| EWR Newark | 142 | 80.3% | 10.6% | 10.1 |
| DEN Denver | 180 | 80.0% | 13.3% | 13.0 |
| LAX Los Angeles | 622 | 79.6% | 9.3% | 13.8 |
| DSM Des Moines | 34 | 79.4% | 14.7% | 14.6 |
| BCN Barcelona | 34 | 79.4% | 8.8% | 5.5 |
| PDX Portland | 86 | 79.1% | 14.0% | 11.1 |
| CLE Cleveland | 85 | 78.8% | 10.6% | 15.0 |
| JFK New York | 439 | 78.4% | 10.9% | 15.8 |
| ONT Ontario | 54 | 77.8% | 14.8% | 20.0 |
| LAS Las Vegas | 291 | 77.0% | 11.3% | 14.1 |
| DCA Washington | 510 | 76.1% | 14.1% | 17.2 |
| STL St. Louis | 128 | 75.8% | 18.0% | 23.7 |
| BOS Boston | 382 | 75.7% | 11.8% | 14.7 |
| SMF Sacramento | 57 | 75.4% | 7.0% | 9.3 |
| PHL Philadelphia | 1,123 | 75.1% | 12.3% | 14.7 |
| BWI Baltimore | 75 | 74.7% | 16.0% | 17.5 |
| JAX Jacksonville | 125 | 74.4% | 18.4% | 21.5 |
| ORF Norfolk | 54 | 74.1% | 18.5% | 24.5 |
| FLL Fort Lauderdale | 150 | 74.0% | 16.7% | 17.6 |
| PHX Phoenix | 1,003 | 73.4% | 10.9% | 13.8 |
| SDF Louisville | 56 | 73.2% | 3.6% | 12.5 |
| PIT Pittsburgh (Pennsylva) | 122 | 73.0% | 18.0% | 27.3 |
| CLT Charlotte | 2,187 | 72.8% | 15.9% | 17.4 |
| MCO Orlando | 346 | 72.8% | 15.0% | 21.8 |
| MSP Minneapolis | 106 | 72.6% | 14.2% | 19.8 |
| GRR Grand Rapids | 40 | 72.5% | 10.0% | 20.0 |
| SEA Seattle | 137 | 72.3% | 16.8% | 21.4 |
| MIA Miami | 1,671 | 71.5% | 12.4% | 16.1 |
| BNA Nashville | 203 | 70.9% | 18.7% | 23.4 |
| CHS Charleston | 103 | 70.9% | 17.5% | 25.4 |
| SAT San Antonio | 144 | 70.8% | 16.0% | 27.5 |
| RSW Fort Myers | 89 | 70.8% | 13.5% | 17.5 |
| RIC Richmond | 65 | 70.8% | 18.5% | 31.2 |
| TPA Tampa | 218 | 70.6% | 15.1% | 23.2 |
| IAD Washington | 34 | 70.6% | 14.7% | 19.6 |
| LGA New York | 361 | 70.1% | 11.9% | 16.4 |
| CMH Columbus | 97 | 70.1% | 17.5% | 28.7 |
| SLC Salt Lake City | 89 | 69.7% | 19.1% | 19.7 |
| CVG Cincinnati | 66 | 69.7% | 18.2% | 23.4 |
| SJC San Jose | 33 | 69.7% | 12.1% | 14.7 |
| PWM Portland | 59 | 69.5% | 22.0% | 25.2 |
| MSY New Orleans | 130 | 69.2% | 21.5% | 27.8 |
| FAT Fresno | 39 | 69.2% | 23.1% | 31.9 |
| BUF Buffalo | 51 | 68.6% | 17.6% | 20.1 |
| AUS Austin | 219 | 68.5% | 17.4% | 24.2 |
| ATL Atlanta | 171 | 68.4% | 22.2% | 31.2 |
| RDU Raleigh-Durham | 214 | 67.8% | 13.1% | 17.5 |
| IND Indianapolis | 129 | 67.4% | 17.1% | 26.1 |
| MKE Milwaukee | 42 | 66.7% | 23.8% | 32.0 |
| FCO Rome | 42 | 66.7% | 16.7% | 20.4 |
| ABQ Albuquerque | 56 | 66.1% | 23.2% | 26.4 |
| SAV Savannah | 38 | 65.8% | 13.2% | 26.7 |
| SAN San Diego | 170 | 65.3% | 20.6% | 28.3 |
| TUS Tucson | 54 | 64.8% | 18.5% | 31.1 |
| ELP El Paso | 48 | 64.6% | 22.9% | 52.1 |
| IAH Houston | 157 | 64.3% | 21.0% | 29.9 |
| MSN Madison | 47 | 63.8% | 27.7% | 43.1 |
| ORD Chicago | 1,514 | 63.7% | 21.4% | 23.9 |
| SNA Santa Ana | 122 | 63.1% | 25.4% | 27.3 |
| GEG Spokane | 34 | 58.8% | 14.7% | 28.5 |
| DFW Dallas-Fort Worth | 3,245 | 58.3% | 24.7% | 35.1 |
| OKC Oklahoma City | 70 | 55.7% | 34.3% | 46.0 |
| TUL Tulsa | 52 | 53.8% | 32.7% | 34.8 |
| MEM Memphis | 67 | 46.3% | 20.9% | 37.7 |
Least punctual routes
Routes with at least 20 American Airlines departures, lowest on-time share first.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to SDF Dallas-Fort Worth to Louisville | 20 | 30.0% | 49.3 |
| ORD to RDU Chicago to Raleigh-Durham | 22 | 31.8% | 45.0 |
| PHX to BOS Phoenix to Boston | 25 | 36.0% | 32.8 |
| DFW to XNA Dallas-Fort Worth to Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers | 21 | 38.1% | 80.1 |
| DFW to BOS Dallas-Fort Worth to Boston | 47 | 38.3% | 47.7 |
| ORD to MSP Chicago to Minneapolis | 20 | 40.0% | 33.8 |
| DFW to CHS Dallas-Fort Worth to Charleston | 22 | 40.9% | 45.7 |
| DFW to SAN Dallas-Fort Worth to San Diego | 56 | 41.1% | 39.7 |
| MEM to DFW Memphis to Dallas-Fort Worth | 31 | 41.9% | 41.5 |
| MEM to CLT Memphis to Charlotte | 26 | 42.3% | 41.2 |
Busiest routes
The ten routes American Airlines flew most this month.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX to DFW Los Angeles to Dallas-Fort Worth | 92 | 78.3% | 23.7 |
| DFW to ORD Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago | 85 | 67.1% | 29.3 |
| ORD to DFW Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth | 84 | 71.4% | 27.5 |
| PHX to DFW Phoenix to Dallas-Fort Worth | 84 | 76.2% | 18.9 |
| DFW to MIA Dallas-Fort Worth to Miami | 82 | 72.0% | 17.8 |
| DFW to LGA Dallas-Fort Worth to New York | 81 | 69.1% | 22.0 |
| DFW to LAX Dallas-Fort Worth to Los Angeles | 79 | 70.9% | 25.2 |
| DFW to PHX Dallas-Fort Worth to Phoenix | 78 | 64.1% | 16.9 |
| MIA to DFW Miami to Dallas-Fort Worth | 78 | 79.5% | 15.9 |
| LAS to DFW Las Vegas to Dallas-Fort Worth | 78 | 71.8% | 29.8 |
Other months for American Airlines
Airport pages for October 2026
How we measure
On time means the aircraft took off within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure, after subtracting the departure airport's normal taxi time (FAA SWIM reports wheels-off, not push-back, so the median taxi time of the last 30 days is taken off every flight first). Average delay is the mean of that taxi-adjusted delay over all departures; early departures count as negative minutes, so an operator that routinely leaves early can show a negative average. 45+ min late is the share of departures that left 45 minutes or more behind schedule, the point at which most connections are at risk.
Scope: scheduled airlines only, the same set as the monthly State of the Sky report (operators with published routes; private, fractional and charter operators are left out), so the two publications give the same numbers for the same month. Departures are counted by scheduled day (UTC). Each day's flights are rolled up overnight and published the next morning; the newest day keeps filling in for a day or two and is only shown once it is substantially complete. Figures can differ by a few tenths of a point from the State of the Sky report for the same month: that report is frozen on the 2nd of the following month, while these pages are rebuilt from the live rollup, which recomputes each airport's taxi baseline nightly and re-rolls the last week of the month as late departure times arrive (September 2026 at SFO: 16,398 departures in both, 69.2% on time here against 69.5% in the report).
Source: FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) flight plans and departure times, processed by PlaneTrack. Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0).
Data note: 3 October 2026 - FAA schedule rollup ran short after a database stall (about 17% of departures missing).