Flight number record
AA 1773
American Airlines · Charlotte to Tampa
- Route
- CLT → TPA
- Departs
- 21:35
- Flights
- 276
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 276 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 1773 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 139 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 273 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.09%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 276 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 276 flights, with 22:25 (34 flights) and 22:29 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 21:3556 flights20.3%
- Departs 22:2534 flights12.3%
- Departs 22:2931 flights11.2%
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 21:35 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AA 1773 runs 7 points worse at 63.4%. 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 1773 next to CLT to TPA
Every carrier on CLT to TPA combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 3,038 flights, so AA 1773 is 13 points behind it. American flew 2,884 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1773thin sample | 276 | 63.4% | 60 min | 1.09% | D |
| All American Airlines on CLT–TPA | 2,884 | 76.6% | 63 min | 1.56% | B |
| All carriers on CLT–TPA | 3,038 | 76.6% | 64 min | 1.61% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1773 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1773 held fairly steady: 66.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 59.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 68.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 65.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights59.8%
- Jan–Mar 202683 flights68.8%
- Apr–Jun 202649 flights65.3%
- Jul–Sep 202627 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1773 did best on Wednesday at 80.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 42.5%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 38 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1773 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 52 of the 100 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 27 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early40 flights14.7%
- Within 15 min133 flights48.7%
- 15–29 min late52 flights19.0%
- 30–59 min late21 flights7.7%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights6.2%
- 2+ hours late10 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 273 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
22 of 108 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 14 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 TPA.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1773
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 April 2026, 9 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across April, December, March and January, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 April 2026 | 9 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 December 2025 | 6 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 March 2026 | 6 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 January 2026 | 4 hours 10 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why AA 1773 runs late
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 6,008 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,008 delay minutes reported on AA 1773.
Cancellations sit at 1.09% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.9% 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 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.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including LGA to ORD (35), IND to PHX (34) and ORD to DEN (6), 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. 276 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: 13 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 route67.1%
- American Airlines 1550 on the same route76.5%
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) 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.