Flight number record
AA 1882
American Airlines · Charlotte to Richmond
- Route
- CLT → RIC
- Departs
- 23:06
- Flights
- 258
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1882, check with American Airlines.
AA 1882 draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 258 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 1882 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 109 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 256 completed flights
Avg delay
92 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.78%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 258 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 1882 flies
AA 1882 flies CLT to RIC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:06, used on 53 of 258 flights, with 22:48 (44 flights) and 22:36 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 23:0653 flights20.5%
- Departs 22:4844 flights17.1%
- Departs 22:3635 flights13.6%
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 23:06 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AA 1882 runs 4 points worse at 66.4%. 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 1882 next to CLT to RIC
Every carrier on CLT to RIC combined arrived on time 76.1% of the time across 2,455 flights, so AA 1882 is 10 points behind it. American flew 1,950 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1882thin sample | 258 | 66.4% | 92 min | 0.78% | C+ |
| All American Airlines on CLT–RIC | 1,950 | 75.8% | 70 min | 1.59% | B |
| All carriers on CLT–RIC | 2,455 | 76.1% | 70 min | 1.87% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1882 quarter by quarter
AA 1882 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 78.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 37.5%, a swing of 41 points on roughly 65 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 20252 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights78.2%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights69.8%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights67.5%
- Jul–Sep 202641 flights37.5%
Scale runs 30% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1882 did best on Friday at 81.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 51.2%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1882 runs when it is late
The 86 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 32 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early39 flights15.2%
- Within 15 min131 flights51.2%
- 15–29 min late31 flights12.1%
- 30–59 min late23 flights9.0%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.5%
- 2+ hours late18 flights7.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 256 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 99 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1882
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 August 2026, 9 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2026 | 9 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 April 2026 | 7 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 December 2025 | 7 hours 41 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 July 2026 | 7 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 April 2026 | 6 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1882 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 7,891 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 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 7,891 delay minutes reported on AA 1882.
Cancellations are rare at 0.78%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
12.5% 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 same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including ATL to MIA (31), MIA to ATL (31) and SFO to LAX (17), but none flew often enough under AA 1882 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CLT to RIC only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 258 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 1882
For a booking, AA 1882 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.5% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to RIC, every carrier and departure
- RIC to CLT, 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
- 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.