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American Airlines ORD to CLT on-time performance

American Airlines nonstop flights from Chicago to Charlotte · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
75%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
2.5%
76 flights
Avg arrival delay
22 min
85 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 6
route average 74% on time

Key facts

  • American Airlines flights on ORD to CLT arrived on time 75% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 2.5% were cancelled, and 10% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 6 airlines on this route, which averaged 74% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (58%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 65.4% on time, 2.4% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 75.1% on time, 3.1% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 80.0% on time, 0.4% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 83.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 82.7% on time, 3.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 70.3% on time, 0.4% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 75.6% on time, 8.1% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 76.2% on time, 1.9% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 67.3% on time, 3.9% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 70.7% on time, 2.2% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 78.8% on time, 0.7% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 72.1% on time, 3.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 72.8% on time, 2.9% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft58%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)26%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion12%
  • Extreme weather4%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on ORD to CLT

Full ORD to CLT comparison →
American Airlines on-time record across all routes →

3,064 American Airlines flights tracked on this route; 76 cancelled, 3 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.