AA238 from Los Angeles to New York, tracked live

AA238 distance and great-circle path

AA238 covers 3,974 km, or 2,470 miles. That makes it a medium-haul flight, long enough for a full meal service, short enough for narrowbodies. Of the 439 routes we track, it ranks 258 by distance.

Both ends of this route are in United States. It is 3,974 km of domestic flying north-east, from Los Angeles to New York. Watches move 3 hours forward between the two gates.

Our guide explains how the LAX-JFK route appears on a tracker map.

What to know about AA238

• Time change: you land 3 hours ahead of the time you left.

What flying LAX to JFK takes

It is a medium-haul sector, long enough for a full meal service, short enough for narrowbodies. American Airlines needs a narrowbody on the longer variants, or a widebody where demand justifies it: at this distance the choice is usually about seat count rather than range. Eastbound, the jet stream is usually a tailwind, so the return leg against it tends to be the longer of the two. In daylight the sun sits on the right (south-facing) side of the cabin for most of the crossing.

How we verified this

The origin and destination on this page are the ones we verified for callsign AAL238 through adsbdb, not a schedule copied from elsewhere. We have logged it airborne on 39 days between 2026-09-19 and 2026-10-28. Timings are observations, not an official operational status: always confirm with the airline before travelling.

This page was published from our own tracking record rather than a third-party schedule feed, so it grows as we see the flight again. The seven-day log below is the raw version of the same evidence.

We track 2 scheduled services between Los Angeles and New York, split between American Airlines and JetBlue Airways. It sits in the middle of the pack on both departure time and scheduled duration.

Measured against AA238:

• B6424 (JetBlue Airways) runs the same pairing, on an Airbus A321.

Block time is gate to gate, so it counts taxi at both ends. That is why two flights covering identical distance rarely share a scheduled duration.

Our database contains 6 observations of AA238 across 6 UTC dates in this window, most recently 2026-10-28. Those records contain 4 distinct transponder addresses. The most frequently resolved route was LAX-JFK (6 records).

The median recorded visibility was 295 minutes. That is time inside receiver coverage, not airborne duration or an on-time-performance measurement.