Flight number record

AA 1235

American Airlines · Syracuse to Charlotte

Route: SYR → CLT
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 319
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1235, check with American Airlines.

AA 1235 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 319 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

81.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 313 completed flights

Avg delay

94 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.88%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 319 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1235 flies

AA 1235 flies SYR to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 86 of 319 flights, with 07:08 (48 flights) and 08:00 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:0086 flights27.0%
Departs 07:0848 flights15.0%
Departs 08:0040 flights12.5%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1235 runs 8 points worse at 81.5%. 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 1235 next to SYR to CLT

Every carrier on SYR to CLT combined arrived on time 80.8% of the time across 1,093 flights, so AA 1235 is about level with it. American flew 1,024 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

AA 1235 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1235thin sample	319	81.5%	94 min	1.88%	B
All American Airlines on SYR–CLT	1,024	80.9%	96 min	1.56%	B
All carriers on SYR–CLT	1,093	80.8%	92 min	1.65%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1235 quarter by quarter

AA 1235 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 88.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.6%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 80 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 202591 flights87.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights77.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.6%
Apr–Jun 202646 flights88.9%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1235 did best on Wednesday at 88.6% on time and worst on Saturday at 68.2%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1235 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 85% of the 5,452 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
85%
National Airspace System
11%
Late-arriving aircraft
4%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 85%, 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 4,622 of the 5,452 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,452 delay minutes reported on AA 1235.

Cancellations sit at 1.88% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.4% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 603 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 one other city pair in the data, including ORD to AUS (44), but none flew often enough under AA 1235 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SYR to CLT only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 319 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 1235

For a booking, read AA 1235 as 81.5% on time with 1.88% cancelled over 319 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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