Flight number record

AA 1882

American Airlines · Charlotte to Richmond

Route: CLT → RIC
Departs: 23:06
Flights: 276
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 276 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1882 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 106 extra late arrivals.

On time

67.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 273 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.09%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

12.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 276 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.1% 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 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 276 flights, with 22:48 (44 flights) and 22:36 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 23:0653 flights19.2%
Departs 22:4844 flights15.9%
Departs 22:3634 flights12.3%

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 23:06 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 1882 runs 4 points worse at 67.0%. 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 1882 next to CLT to RIC

Every carrier on CLT to RIC combined arrived on time 76.1% of the time across 2,497 flights, so AA 1882 is 9 points behind it. American flew 1,995 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

AA 1882 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1882thin sample	276	67.0%	71 min	1.09%	C
All American Airlines on CLT–RIC	1,995	74.7%	64 min	2.01%	C
All carriers on CLT–RIC	2,497	76.1%	64 min	2.08%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	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 2025 at 49.2%, a swing of 29 points on roughly 69 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 202561 flights49.2%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights78.2%
Jan–Mar 202653 flights69.8%
Apr–Jun 202683 flights67.5%

Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1882 did best on Friday at 75.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 51.3%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1882 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 6,416 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
41%
Carrier
34%
Extreme weather
12%
National Airspace System
12%
Security
0%

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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,416 delay minutes reported on AA 1882.

Cancellations sit at 1.09% 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. 12.1% 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 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. 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 1882

For a booking, AA 1882 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.1% 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.

Where to go next

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.

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