Flight number record

AA 1727

American Airlines · Charlotte to New York

Route: CLT → JFK
Departs: 20:29
Flights: 350
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1727, check with American Airlines.

AA 1727 earns a D, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 57.9% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 20 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 350 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1727 runs 20 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 197 extra late arrivals.

On time

57.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 340 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.86%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

19.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 350 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.1% 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 1727 flies

AA 1727 flies CLT to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:29, used on 36 of 350 flights, with 20:12 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:2936 flights10.3%
Departs 20:1235 flights10.0%

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 20:29 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 1727 runs 13 points worse at 57.9%. 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 1727 next to CLT to JFK

Every carrier on CLT to JFK combined arrived on time 70.2% of the time across 2,032 flights, so AA 1727 is 12 points behind it. American flew 1,837 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 17 points.

AA 1727 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1727thin sample	350	57.9%	81 min	2.86%	D
All American Airlines on CLT–JFK	1,837	69.2%	80 min	2.61%	C
All carriers on CLT–JFK	2,032	70.2%	80 min	2.81%	C
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1727 quarter by quarter

AA 1727 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 65.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 48.3%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 88 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 202591 flights48.3%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights57.5%
Jan–Mar 202682 flights65.8%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights61.1%

Scale runs 40% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1727 did best on Tuesday at 76.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 44.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1727 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 12,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
35%
National Airspace System
35%
Carrier
25%
Extreme weather
5%

35% 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 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 11,523 delay minutes reported on AA 1727.

Cancellations run at 2.86%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 19.1% 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.

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 one other city pair in the data, including PHX to MSP (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1727 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CLT to JFK only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 350 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 1727

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1727: 2.86% of its 350 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, 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.

Key figures