Flight number record
AA 1550
American Airlines · Charlotte to Tampa
- Route
- CLT → TPA
- Departs
- 18:14
- Flights
- 261
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1550, check with American Airlines.
AA 1550 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 261 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 255 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.30%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 261 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 1550 flies
AA 1550 flies CLT to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:14, used on 47 of 261 flights, with 18:35 (44 flights) and 18:27 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 18:1447 flights18.0%
- Departs 18:3544 flights16.9%
- Departs 18:2737 flights14.2%
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 18:14 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 1550 runs 9 points better at 76.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 1550 next to CLT to TPA
Every carrier on CLT to TPA combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 3,038 flights, so AA 1550 is about level with it. American flew 2,884 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1550thin sample | 261 | 76.5% | 81 min | 2.30% | B |
| All American Airlines on CLT–TPA | 2,884 | 76.6% | 63 min | 1.56% | B |
| All carriers on CLT–TPA | 3,038 | 76.6% | 64 min | 1.61% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1550 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1550 held fairly steady: 76.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 76.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 76.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 75.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of about a point is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights76.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.5%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights75.5%
Scale runs 65% to 80%.
By weekday, AA 1550 did best on Wednesday at 94.7% on time and worst on Thursday at 61.1%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 34 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1550 runs when it is late
The 60 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early53 flights20.8%
- Within 15 min142 flights55.7%
- 15–29 min late17 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late20 flights7.8%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights6.7%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 255 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 62 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1550
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 February 2026, 14 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 February 2026 | 14 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 February 2026 | 10 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 33 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 May 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 April 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 1550 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 4,863 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 14%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,863 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 29 to one. The split is drawn from 4,863 delay minutes reported on AA 1550.
Cancellations sit at 2.30% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 507 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 four other city pairs in the data, including BOS to DCA (65), DCA to BOS (65) and PHL to MCI (27), but none flew often enough under AA 1550 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CLT to TPA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 261 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 1550
For a booking, read AA 1550 as 76.5% on time with 2.30% cancelled over 261 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to TPA, every carrier and departure
- TPA to CLT, the return direction
- American Airlines 2022 on the same route67.1%
- American Airlines 1773 on the same route63.4%
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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.