AAL1242 is operated by AMERICAN AIRLINES INC between Washington Dulles International Airport (KIAD) and Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 3h 3m. SkyMeter has observed 81 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
81
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
3h 3m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 08/21/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
5 / 4
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

4
KIAD → KLAX
38
avg 5h 17m · Washington Dulles → Los Angeles
KCLT → KIAD
27
avg 1h 4m · Charlotte Douglas → Washington Dulles
KCLT → KCHS
12
avg 46m · Charlotte Douglas → Charleston Air Force Base-International
KIAD → KHHR
1
avg 5h 11m · Washington Dulles → Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

4
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
36
A320 AIRBUS Airbus A320
21
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
19
A319 AIRBUS Airbus A319
6

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
0
Rejected TO
0
Stall warnings
0
Overspeeds
0
Runway excursion
0
Counts represent flights with at least one occurrence of each flag, not the total event count. See /incidents for individual events.

Recent flights

Newest 30 operations of AAL1242

30
N337PJBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
08/21/2026
35m
No alerts
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N322THBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
08/18/2026
47m
No alerts
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N811NNBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
08/17/2026
1h 10m
No alerts
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N300UBBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
08/16/2026
46m
No alerts
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N889NNBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
08/15/2026
39m
No alerts
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N917ANBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
08/14/2026
54m
No alerts
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N357PVBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/13/2026
1h 9m
No alerts
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N939NNBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/12/2026
30m
No alerts
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N906ANBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
08/11/2026
44m
No alerts
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N869NNBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
08/10/2026
39m
No alerts
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N346PRBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
08/08/2026
36m
No alerts
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N963NNBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/07/2026
29m
No alerts
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N994NNBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/06/2026
52m
No alerts
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N876NNBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
08/05/2026
41m
No alerts
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N647AWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
08/05/2026
58m
No alerts
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N601AWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
08/04/2026
1h 6m
No alerts
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N123UWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
08/03/2026
1h 10m
No alerts
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N104UWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
08/02/2026
1h 1m
No alerts
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N110UWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
08/01/2026
58m
⤓ Emergency descent
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N124USAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
07/31/2026
1h 2m
No alerts
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N9023NAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
07/30/2026
1h 16m
No alerts
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N121UWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
07/29/2026
1h 2m
No alerts
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N653AWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
07/28/2026
1h 8m
No alerts
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N660AWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
07/26/2026
1h 3m
No alerts
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N102UWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
07/25/2026
1h 5m
No alerts
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N722USAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
07/24/2026
1h 4m
No alerts
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N8001NAIRBUS Airbus A319
→
07/23/2026
59m
No alerts
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N650AWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
07/22/2026
57m
No alerts
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N942NNBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
07/21/2026
1h 8m
No alerts
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N117UWAIRBUS Airbus A320
→
07/19/2026
58m
No alerts
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