Flight number record
AA 1176
American Airlines · Charlotte to Fort Myers
- Route
- CLT → RSW
- Departs
- 16:50
- Flights
- 307
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1176, check with American Airlines.
AA 1176 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 307 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1176 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 56 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 300 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.28%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 307 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 1176 flies
AA 1176 flies CLT to RSW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:50, used on 44 of 307 flights, with 21:34 (44 flights) and 21:35 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:5044 flights14.3%
- Departs 21:3444 flights14.3%
- Departs 21:3532 flights10.4%
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 16:50 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 1176 runs level with that at 72.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 1176 next to CLT to RSW
Every carrier on CLT to RSW combined arrived on time 78.2% of the time across 1,785 flights, so AA 1176 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1176thin sample | 307 | 72.0% | 65 min | 2.28% | C |
| All American Airlines on CLT–RSW | 1,785 | 78.2% | 57 min | 1.68% | B |
| All carriers on CLT–RSW | 1,785 | 78.2% | 57 min | 1.68% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1176 quarter by quarter
AA 1176 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 60.3%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 77 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 202569 flights74.2%
- Oct–Dec 202568 flights60.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.7%
- Apr–Jun 202680 flights75.0%
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1176 did best on Wednesday at 81.1% on time and worst on Friday at 60.5%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1176 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 5,459 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.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,459 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 5,459 delay minutes reported on AA 1176.
Cancellations sit at 2.28% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 600 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 three other city pairs in the data, including RSW to CLT (78), CLT to SDF (11) and ORD to CLT (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1176 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CLT to RSW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 307 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 1176
For a booking, AA 1176 is one of the weaker ways to fly CLT to RSW: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to RSW, every carrier and departure
- RSW to CLT, the return direction
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.