Flight profile · American Airlines
AA341
New York (JFK) to Los Angeles (LAX) · scheduled 3:30 PM – 6:42 PM
How AA341 performs
625 operations, November 2024 – July 2026.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 625 operations, November 2024 – July 2026 · If AA341 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back — the refund checker walks through eligibility.
Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA341 | 80.5% | 1.60% | -13 min | 5.7% | 625 |
| American Airlines on JFK → LAX | 83.0% | 1.21% | -16 min | 6.6% | 10,080 |
| All JFK → LAX flights | 79.8% | 1.19% | -11 min | 7.6% | 31,151 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2024 – July 2026
Why AA341 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding, fueling — 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 AA341 on JFK → LAX. A single late flight can carry more than one cause, and only delays of fifteen minutes or more are attributed at all.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves JFK late, does that still matter by the time it reaches LAX?
AA341 pushes back an average of 12.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAX an average of 0.2 minutes late. The 12.1 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 25.7 minutes on the taxiways at JFK, 2.1 minutes shorter than a typical JFK departure in the same hour.
On arrival at LAX, AA341 spends 8.5 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 2.2 minutes shorter than a typical LAX arrival (10.7 min).
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached LAX. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 25,963 departures from JFK scheduled in the clock hour AA341 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at LAX (595,170 flights), not just AA341’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves JFK
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA341 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 25,963 departures from JFK are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 351,635 across the whole day.
AA341 is scheduled out of JFK at 3:30 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from JFK in that hour arrive on time 73.8% of the time against 77.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.2 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from JFK to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA341 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEA→ORD Seattle to Chicago | October 7, 2024 – November 4, 2024 | 20 | — |
| CLT→DFW Charlotte to Dallas–Fort Worth | September 4, 2024 | 1 | — |
| DFW→TUL Dallas–Fort Worth to Tulsa | June 5, 2024 – August 5, 2024 | 58 | — |
| PHL→PBI Philadelphia to West Palm Beach | May 6, 2024 – June 4, 2024 | 30 | — |
| PBI→PHL West Palm Beach to Philadelphia | May 6, 2024 – June 4, 2024 | 30 | — |
| DFW→LAX Dallas–Fort Worth to Los Angeles | March 31, 2024 – April 3, 2024 | 4 | — |
| LAX→DFW Los Angeles to Dallas–Fort Worth | March 30, 2024 – April 2, 2024 | 4 | — |
| DFW→ELP Dallas–Fort Worth to El Paso | February 15, 2024 – March 6, 2024 | 21 | — |
| DFW→RDU Dallas–Fort Worth to Raleigh–Durham | January 8, 2024 – February 12, 2024 | 21 | — |
| ONT→DFW Ontario to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 20, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 16 | — |
| CLT→PHL Charlotte to Philadelphia | November 5, 2023 – December 4, 2023 | 25 | — |
| PHL→CLT Philadelphia to Charlotte | November 5, 2023 – December 4, 2023 | 25 | — |
| CLT→JFK Charlotte to New York | November 4, 2023 | 1 | — |
| AUS→PHL Austin to Philadelphia | September 5, 2023 | 1 | — |
| DFW→SNA Dallas–Fort Worth to Santa Ana | August 17, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 11 | — |
| SEA→CLT Seattle to Charlotte | August 4, 2023 | 1 | — |
| SFO→MIA San Francisco to Miami | July 27–31, 2023 | 3 | — |
| DFW→MFE Dallas–Fort Worth to McAllen | July 1–4, 2023 | 4 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA341 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
34 min late
against a median of 13 min early
Percentiles over 625 operations. Cancelled and diverted flights have no arrival time and are counted separately rather than as very late arrivals.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2024 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey — and not the same odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6123 | JetBlue | 91.0% | 17 min early | 888 |
| AA1 | American Airlines | 89.4% | 17 min early | 1,094 |
| AA3 | American Airlines | 88.3% | 19 min early | 1,077 |
| AA171 | American Airlines | 87.1% | 15 min early | 810 |
| AA255 | American Airlines | 87.0% | 22 min early | 916 |
| AA306 | American Airlines | 83.8% | 15 min early | 1,113 |
| B6723 | JetBlue | 83.4% | 14 min early | 821 |
| DL773 | Delta Air Lines | 82.8% | 8 min early | 1,089 |
| AA341 this flight | American Airlines | 80.5% | 13 min early | 625 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA341 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 625 records of AA341 operating JFK → 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 excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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