Flight number record
AA 1704
American Airlines · Tampa to Charlotte
- Route
- TPA → CLT
- Departs
- 09:30
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1704, check with American Airlines.
AA 1704 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1704's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 132 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
110 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.65%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1704 flies
AA 1704 flies TPA to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:30, used on 61 of 364 flights, with 08:14 (44 flights) and 08:30 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 09:3061 flights16.8%
- Departs 08:1444 flights12.1%
- Departs 08:3042 flights11.5%
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 09:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 1704 runs 7 points better at 90.5%. 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 1704 next to TPA to CLT
Every carrier on TPA to CLT combined arrived on time 83.7% of the time across 3,037 flights, so AA 1704 is 7 points ahead of it. American flew 2,886 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1704thin sample | 364 | 90.5% | 110 min | 1.65% | A |
| All American Airlines on TPA–CLT | 2,886 | 83.6% | 80 min | 1.52% | B |
| All carriers on TPA–CLT | 3,037 | 83.7% | 79 min | 1.55% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1704 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1704 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 87.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights93.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights87.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 1704 ranged from 86.3% on Sunday to 94.2% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1704 runs when it is late
AA 1704 often beats the schedule: 145 of 357 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 34 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early145 flights40.6%
- Within 15 min178 flights49.9%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.1%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 35 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. Only 6 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1704
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 December 2025, 13 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2025 | 13 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 August 2026 | 13 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 January 2026 | 5 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 June 2026 | 3 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 November 2025 | 2 hours 9 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why AA 1704 runs late
Carrier accounts for 66% of the 3,731 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 66%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,477 of the 3,731 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,731 delay minutes reported on AA 1704.
Cancellations sit at 1.65% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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.
Every one of the 364 flights under AA 1704 in the data flew TPA to CLT. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 1704 as 90.5% on time with 1.65% cancelled over 364 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- TPA to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to TPA, the return direction
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- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
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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.