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AA 1New York to Los Angeles

American Airlines🇺🇸JFK🇺🇸LAXJohn F. Kennedy International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport
Departs
08:29
local to New York
Operates
Daily
S26 schedule
Distance
3,974 km
2,469 miles
Typical delay
20 min
59 departures

The route

Great circle, 3,974 km
JFKLAX3,974 km
3,974 km (2,469 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

What flies it

59 sightings

A321 on 98% of sightings, also A21N.

Aircraft types we recorded on this flight. A type is never inferred from the route, so a flight we have not seen closely shows none.

How delayed is AA 1?

Measured over months

This flight leaves John F. Kennedy International Airport a typical 20 minutes late (likely 17 to 27), across 59 departures we tracked between 2026-03-29 and 2026-09-06.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Other flights on this route

1 more
FlightAirlineDepartsDepartures seen
DL 773Delta Air Lines09:0012

Where it goes

How these numbers are measured