Flight number record

AA 1050

American Airlines · Albany to Charlotte

Route: ALB → CLT
Departs: 07:43
Flights: 254
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1050, check with American Airlines.

AA 1050 earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 4.3 hours. That rests on 254 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1050's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 105 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 244 completed flights

Avg delay

260 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.54%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 254 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When AA 1050 flies

AA 1050 flies ALB to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:43, used on 51 of 254 flights, with 07:23 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:4351 flights20.1%
Departs 07:2337 flights14.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 07:43 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1050 runs level with that at 88.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AA 1050 next to ALB to CLT

Every carrier on ALB to CLT combined arrived on time 82.3% of the time across 1,119 flights, so AA 1050 is 6 points ahead of it. American flew 1,046 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 14 points.

AA 1050 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1050thin sample	254	88.1%	260 min	3.54%	A−
All American Airlines on ALB–CLT	1,046	81.8%	131 min	1.63%	B
All carriers on ALB–CLT	1,119	82.3%	128 min	1.61%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1050 quarter by quarter

AA 1050 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 84.0%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 85 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202528 flights—
Oct–Dec 202587 flights87.1%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights84.0%
Apr–Jun 202650 flights94.0%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1050 ranged from 82.4% on Monday to 91.4% on Tuesday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AA 1050 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 7,549 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
62%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
National Airspace System
6%
Extreme weather
0%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 4,679 of the 7,549 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,549 delay minutes reported on AA 1050.

Cancellations run at 3.54%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 4.3 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 646 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including IND to CLT (62) and LAX to ORD (41), but none flew often enough under AA 1050 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ALB to CLT only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 254 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking AA 1050

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1050: 3.54% of its 254 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 4.3 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

A flight number here means American Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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