Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2690
Las Vegas (LAS) to Los Angeles (LAX) · scheduled 7:00 AM – 8:18 AM
How AA2690 performs
1,054 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on LAS → LAX, AA2690 averaged about 6 operations a week (1,054 in 1,157 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2690 arrived on time 86.7% of the time, against 77.5% for all LAS → LAX flights, so this departure is 9.2 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 10.1 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,054 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2690 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA2690 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 91% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
86.7% on time for this specific departure, against 76.6% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where AA2690 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2690 | 86.7% | 0.38% | -10 min | 5.2% | 1,054 |
| American Airlines on LAS → LAX | 76.6% | 0.39% | -6 min | 10.2% | 3,582 |
| All LAS → LAX flights | 77.5% | 0.68% | -5 min | 6.7% | 28,931 |
AA2690 cancelled 4 of 1,054 operations (0.38%), close to the 0.68% for LAS → LAX.
5.2% of AA2690’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 6.7% across LAS → LAX, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why AA2690 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2690 on LAS → LAX. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA2690 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA2690 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9.6 hours on the ground at LAS, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2690 pushed back an average of 2 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 5 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into LAS: 714 of 1,051 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2690 | 33% | 11% | 9% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less here than on a same-day turn.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA2690’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA2690 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LAS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches LAX?
AA2690 pushes back an average of 9.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAX an average of 6.1 minutes late. The 3.7 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 19.7 minutes on the taxiways at LAS, 2.2 minutes longer than a typical LAS departure in the same hour.
On arrival at LAX, AA2690 spends 12.5 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 1.7 minutes longer than a typical LAX arrival (10.8 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 40,053 LAS departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 611,660 arrivals at LAX. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves LAS
AA2690 has one departure time, 7:00 AM, so this is what that hour at LAS is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 40,053 departures from LAS are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 583,449 across the whole day.
AA2690 is scheduled out of LAS at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from LAS in that hour arrive on time 88.2% of the time against 77.8% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.4 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from LAS, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does AA2690 run worse on particular days?
Tuesday scored highest and Sunday lowest, 5.1 points apart, but with about 151 operations per scored day that is within what chance alone produces, so no day stands out.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AA2690 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2690 also served these 2 other city pairs in the period.
The figures above describe only LAS → LAX, the route AA2690 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
24 min late
against a median of 10 min early
Percentiles over 1,054 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL553 | Delta Air Lines | 92.0% | 11 min early | 816 |
| DL2253 | Delta Air Lines | 87.0% | 8 min early | 654 |
| AA2690 this flight | American Airlines | 86.7% | 10 min early | 1,054 |
| F93291 | Frontier Airlines | 80.9% | 7 min early | 713 |
| UA684 | United Airlines | 78.9% | 6 min early | 700 |
| DL2120 | Delta Air Lines | 75.3% | 6 min early | 647 |
Among all 6 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2690 has the 3rd highest on-time rate, 5.3 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 1,054 records of AA2690 operating LAS → LAX, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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