Flight number record
AA 1330
American Airlines · Charlotte to Newark
- Route
- CLT → EWR
- Departs
- 16:48
- Flights
- 279
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1330, check with American Airlines.
AA 1330 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 279 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1330 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 157 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 265 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.02%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
19.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 279 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.2% 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 1330 flies
AA 1330 flies CLT to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:48, used on 50 of 279 flights, with 16:41 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:4850 flights17.9%
- Departs 16:4138 flights13.6%
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 16:48 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 1330 runs 11 points worse at 61.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 1330 next to CLT to EWR
Every carrier on CLT to EWR combined arrived on time 74.5% of the time across 3,755 flights, so AA 1330 is 13 points behind it. American flew 1,826 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1330thin sample | 279 | 61.9% | 82 min | 5.02% | D− |
| All American Airlines on CLT–EWR | 1,826 | 70.7% | 76 min | 3.67% | C− |
| All carriers on CLT–EWR | 3,755 | 74.5% | 87 min | 3.94% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1330 quarter by quarter
AA 1330 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 40.4%, a swing of 41 points on roughly 70 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 202558 flights40.4%
- Oct–Dec 202581 flights55.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights69.4%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights81.6%
Scale runs 30% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1330 did best on Tuesday at 75.6% on time and worst on Thursday at 47.6%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1330 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 8,257 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.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
46% 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 8,257 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 8,257 delay minutes reported on AA 1330.
Cancellations run at 5.02%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 19.2% 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 529 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.
AA 1330 is not only a CLT to EWR flight. It also flew EWR to CLT (261 flights, 68.4% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 279 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EWR to CLTthin sample | 261 | 68.4% | 94 min | 5.36% | C− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 1330
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1330: 5.02% of its 279 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to CLT, the return direction
- American Airlines 2794 on the same route60.8%
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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.