Flight number record
AA 1235
American Airlines · Syracuse to Charlotte
- Route
- SYR → CLT
- Departs
- 08:00
- Flights
- 319
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1235, check with American Airlines.
AA 1235 lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 319 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 314 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.57%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 319 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.
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Schedule
When AA 1235 flies
AA 1235 flies SYR to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 75 of 319 flights, with 06:00 (61 flights) and 07:08 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 08:0075 flights23.5%
- Departs 06:0061 flights19.1%
- Departs 07:0848 flights15.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 1235 runs 4 points worse at 79.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 1235 next to SYR to CLT
Every carrier on SYR to CLT combined arrived on time 78.9% of the time across 1,088 flights, so AA 1235 is about level with it. American flew 1,074 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1235thin sample | 319 | 79.6% | 87 min | 1.57% | B |
| All American Airlines on SYR–CLT | 1,074 | 79.0% | 87 min | 1.30% | B |
| All carriers on SYR–CLT | 1,088 | 78.9% | 86 min | 1.38% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights77.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.6%
- Apr–Jun 202646 flights88.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights75.8%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1235 did best on Wednesday at 91.1% on time and worst on Saturday at 70.5%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1235 runs when it is late
AA 1235 often beats the schedule: 84 of 314 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 64 late arrivals split 29 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early84 flights26.8%
- Within 15 min166 flights52.9%
- 15–29 min late29 flights9.2%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late13 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 314 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 18 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at CLT.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1235
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 November 2025, 11 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2025 | 11 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 March 2026 | 8 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 July 2026 | 6 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 January 2026 | 6 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 4 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1235 runs late
Carrier accounts for 84% of the 5,549 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 84%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 84%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,668 of the 5,549 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,549 delay minutes reported on AA 1235.
Cancellations sit at 1.57% against a national 1.89%, 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 8.3%, so 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.
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
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For a booking, read AA 1235 as 79.6% on time with 1.57% cancelled over 319 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- SYR to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to SYR, the return direction
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.