Flight number record
AA 1846
American Airlines · Memphis to Charlotte
- Route
- MEM → CLT
- Departs
- 07:05
- Flights
- 319
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 319 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1846's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 96 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 313 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.88%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 319 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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.
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 319 flights, with 08:37 (48 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:0594 flights29.5%
- Departs 08:3748 flights15.0%
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 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 2 points worse at 87.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
AA 1846 next to MEM to CLT
Every carrier on MEM to CLT combined arrived on time 83.6% of the time across 1,738 flights, so AA 1846 is 4 points ahead of it. American flew 1,411 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1846thin sample | 319 | 87.2% | 57 min | 1.88% | A |
| All American Airlines on MEM–CLT | 1,411 | 85.9% | 85 min | 1.63% | A |
| All carriers on MEM–CLT | 1,738 | 83.6% | 88 min | 2.13% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1846 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1846 held fairly steady: 84.6% 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 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202591 flights84.6%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.0%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights90.0%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1846 ranged from 81.8% on Sunday to 93.2% on Saturday. With about 46 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why AA 1846 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 81% of the 2,285 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 81%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 81%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,858 of the 2,285 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,285 delay minutes reported on AA 1846.
Cancellations sit at 1.88% against a national 1.81%, 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 4.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. 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 TPA to DFW (41), 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. 319 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 1846
For a booking, read AA 1846 as 87.2% on time with 1.88% cancelled over 319 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MEM to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to MEM, the return direction
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.