Flight number record
AA 1773
American Airlines · Charlotte to Tampa
- Route
- CLT → TPA
- Departs
- 21:35
- Flights
- 308
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1773, check with American Airlines.
AA 1773 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 308 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1773 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 161 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 304 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.30%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
11.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 308 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% 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 1773 flies
AA 1773 flies CLT to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:35, used on 56 of 308 flights, with 22:25 (45 flights) and 22:39 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 21:3556 flights18.2%
- Departs 22:2545 flights14.6%
- Departs 22:3932 flights10.4%
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 21:35 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 1773 runs 9 points worse at 61.5%. 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 1773 next to CLT to TPA
Every carrier on CLT to TPA combined arrived on time 75.1% of the time across 3,205 flights, so AA 1773 is 14 points behind it. American flew 2,978 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1773thin sample | 308 | 61.5% | 63 min | 1.30% | D |
| All American Airlines on CLT–TPA | 2,978 | 75.4% | 61 min | 1.58% | B |
| All carriers on CLT–TPA | 3,205 | 75.1% | 63 min | 1.65% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1773 quarter by quarter
AA 1773 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 68.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 54.5%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 77 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 202589 flights54.5%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights59.8%
- Jan–Mar 202683 flights68.8%
- Apr–Jun 202649 flights65.3%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1773 did best on Wednesday at 75.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 45.5%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1773 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 7,411 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Carrier
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
40% 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 7,411 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 7,411 delay minutes reported on AA 1773.
Cancellations sit at 1.30% 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. 11.5% 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 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including LGA to ORD (34), ORD to DEN (6) and TPA to CLT (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1773 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CLT to TPA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 308 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 1773
For a booking, AA 1773 is one of the weaker ways to fly CLT to TPA: 14 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to TPA, every carrier and departure
- TPA to CLT, the return direction
- American Airlines 2022 on the same route67.0%
- American Airlines 1550 on the same route72.1%
- American Airlines 2915 on the same route77.1%
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.