Flight number record

AA 1586

American Airlines · Charlotte to Charleston

Route: CLT → CHS
Departs: 17:50
Flights: 268
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1586, check with American Airlines.

AA 1586 draws a C. About 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 268 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1586 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 100 extra late arrivals.

On time

67.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.24%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

14.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 268 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% 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 1586 flies

AA 1586 flies CLT to CHS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:50, used on 37 of 268 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:5037 flights13.8%

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 17:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AA 1586 runs level with that at 67.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

AA 1586 next to CLT to CHS

Every carrier on CLT to CHS combined arrived on time 76.3% of the time across 2,536 flights, so AA 1586 is 9 points behind it. American flew 1,791 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

AA 1586 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1586thin sample	268	67.6%	69 min	2.24%	C
All American Airlines on CLT–CHS	1,791	74.8%	76 min	1.34%	C
All carriers on CLT–CHS	2,536	76.3%	73 min	1.62%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1586 quarter by quarter

AA 1586 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 62.2%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 89 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 202592 flights62.2%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights75.8%
Jan–Mar 202684 flights65.0%
Apr–Jun 20261 flights—

Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1586 did best on Tuesday at 81.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 54.3%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1586 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 65% of the 5,903 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
65%
Carrier
24%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
4%
Security
0%

65% 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 5,903 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 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 5,903 delay minutes reported on AA 1586.

Cancellations sit at 2.24% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

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. 14.9% 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.

AA 1586 is not only a CLT to CHS flight. It also flew CHS to CLT (260 flights, 73.6% 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. 268 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.

Other routes flown as AA 1586
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
CHS to CLTthin sample	260	73.6%	76 min	2.31%	C

What to do with this

Booking AA 1586

For a booking, AA 1586 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 14.9% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

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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