Flight number record
AA 1727
American Airlines · Charlotte to New York
- Route
- CLT → JFK
- Departs
- 20:29
- Flights
- 351
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1727, check with American Airlines.
AA 1727 draws a D. Roughly 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 351 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 1727 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 155 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 340 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.85%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
15.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 351 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 351 flights.
- Departs 20:2936 flights10.3%
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 20:29 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AA 1727 runs 8 points worse at 61.8%. 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 1727 next to CLT to JFK
Every carrier on CLT to JFK combined arrived on time 71.5% of the time across 2,002 flights, so AA 1727 is 10 points behind it. American flew 1,863 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.5% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1727thin sample | 351 | 61.8% | 70 min | 2.85% | D |
| All American Airlines on CLT–JFK | 1,863 | 70.5% | 77 min | 2.95% | C |
| All carriers on CLT–JFK | 2,002 | 71.5% | 76 min | 2.90% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1727 quarter by quarter
AA 1727 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 73.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 57.5%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 70 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 202530 flights73.3%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights57.5%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights65.8%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights61.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights57.9%
Scale runs 50% to 80%.
By weekday, AA 1727 did best on Tuesday at 78.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 51.4%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1727 runs when it is late
The 130 late arrivals split 38 under half an hour, 38 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 54 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early57 flights16.8%
- Within 15 min153 flights45.0%
- 15–29 min late38 flights11.2%
- 30–59 min late38 flights11.2%
- 1–2 hours late35 flights10.3%
- 2+ hours late19 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 340 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 120 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 31 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at JFK.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1727
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 January 2026, 13 hours 33 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 January 2026 | 13 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 October 2025 | 4 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 October 2025 | 4 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 June 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 April 2026 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 9,143 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%National Airspace System
- 25%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,143 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 9,143 delay minutes reported on AA 1727.
Cancellations run at 2.85%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
15.9% 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 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.
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. 351 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: 2.85% of its 351 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.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to CLT, the return direction
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.