Flight number record
AA 1846
American Airlines · Memphis to Charlotte
- Route
- MEM → CLT
- Departs
- 07:05
- Flights
- 285
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1846, check with American Airlines.
AA 1846 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 285 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1846's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 105 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 278 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.46%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 285 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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.
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Schedule
When AA 1846 flies
AA 1846 flies MEM to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:05, used on 94 of 285 flights, with 08:37 (48 flights) and 07:00 (29 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0594 flights33.0%
- Departs 08:3748 flights16.8%
- Departs 07:0029 flights10.2%
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 07:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1846 runs level with that at 87.8%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 1846 next to MEM to CLT
Every carrier on MEM to CLT combined arrived on time 82.0% of the time across 1,736 flights, so AA 1846 is 6 points ahead of it. American flew 1,358 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1846thin sample | 285 | 87.8% | 53 min | 2.46% | A |
| All American Airlines on MEM–CLT | 1,358 | 85.8% | 83 min | 1.55% | A |
| All carriers on MEM–CLT | 1,736 | 82.0% | 82 min | 2.13% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1846 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1846 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.0%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights90.0%
- Jul–Sep 202627 flights—
Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1846 ranged from 84.6% on Sunday to 92.7% on Friday. With about 41 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1846 runs when it is late
AA 1846 often beats the schedule: 144 of 278 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 34 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early144 flights51.8%
- Within 15 min100 flights36.0%
- 15–29 min late16 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 278 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 28 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1846
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 November 2025, 6 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 November 2025 | 6 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 November 2025 | 1 hour 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 January 2026 | 1 hour 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 January 2026 | 1 hour 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 April 2026 | 1 hour 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1846 runs late
Carrier accounts for 79% of the 1,816 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 79%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 79%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,434 of the 1,816 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,816 delay minutes reported on AA 1846.
Cancellations sit at 2.46% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 511 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 three other city pairs in the data, including TPA to DFW (42), RDU to PHL (34) and PHL to RDU (34), but none flew often enough under AA 1846 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MEM to CLT only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 285 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.
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For a booking, read AA 1846 as 87.8% on time with 2.46% cancelled over 285 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.