Flight number record

AA 1704

American Airlines · Tampa to Charlotte

Route: TPA → CLT
Departs: 09:30
Flights: 358
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 358 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 130 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

90.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights

Avg delay

117 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.68%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 358 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 358 flights, with 08:25 (48 flights) and 08:14 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:3061 flights17.0%
Departs 08:2548 flights13.4%
Departs 08:1444 flights12.3%

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 09:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 1704 runs 7 points better at 90.6%. 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 1704 next to TPA to CLT

Every carrier on TPA to CLT combined arrived on time 82.9% of the time across 3,204 flights, so AA 1704 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 2,981 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 16 points.

AA 1704 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1704thin sample	358	90.6%	117 min	1.68%	A
All American Airlines on TPA–CLT	2,981	83.1%	76 min	1.58%	B
All carriers on TPA–CLT	3,204	82.9%	77 min	1.56%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1704 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1704 held fairly steady: 90.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202586 flights90.7%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights93.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.8%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1704 did best on Thursday at 96.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 82.4%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1704 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 63% of the 3,851 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
63%
National Airspace System
16%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%
Extreme weather
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, 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 2,432 of the 3,851 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,851 delay minutes reported on AA 1704.

Cancellations sit at 1.68% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. 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.

Every one of the 358 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. 358 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 1704

For a booking, read AA 1704 as 90.6% on time with 1.68% cancelled over 358 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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