Flight number record

AA 1444

American Airlines · New York to Charlotte

Route: JFK → CLT
Departs: 07:59
Flights: 335
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1444, check with American Airlines.

AA 1444 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.0 hours. That rests on 335 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1444's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 85 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 317 completed flights

Avg delay

179 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.37%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 335 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 1444 flies

AA 1444 flies JFK to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:59, used on 99 of 335 flights, with 07:55 (94 flights) and 07:58 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:5999 flights29.6%
Departs 07:5594 flights28.1%
Departs 07:5844 flights13.1%

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 07:59 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1444 runs 3 points worse at 86.1%. 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 1444 next to JFK to CLT

Every carrier on JFK to CLT combined arrived on time 81.1% of the time across 2,028 flights, so AA 1444 is 5 points ahead of it. American flew 1,833 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

AA 1444 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1444thin sample	335	86.1%	179 min	5.37%	A−
All American Airlines on JFK–CLT	1,833	80.3%	101 min	2.84%	B
All carriers on JFK–CLT	2,028	81.1%	100 min	2.61%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1444 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1444 held fairly steady: 85.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202563 flights85.7%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights85.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1444 ranged from 82.6% on Thursday to 93.2% on Monday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AA 1444 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 68% of the 7,856 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
68%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 68%, 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 5,307 of the 7,856 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,856 delay minutes reported on AA 1444.

Cancellations run at 5.37%, 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

7.3% 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 3.0 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 542 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 PHX to PHL (28) and DAB to CLT (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1444 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to JFK to CLT only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 335 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 1444

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1444: 5.37% of its 335 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 3.0 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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