Flight number record

AA 1896

American Airlines · Orlando to Charlotte

Route: MCO → CLT
Departs: 05:00
Flights: 318
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1896, check with American Airlines.

AA 1896 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 318 flights, with a median arrival 19 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1896's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 163 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 314 completed flights

Avg delay

70 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.26%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 318 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 19 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 1896 flies

AA 1896 flies MCO to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 251 of 318 flights, with 06:00 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:00251 flights78.9%
Departs 06:0032 flights10.1%

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 05:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1896 runs 5 points better at 93.9%. 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 1896 next to MCO to CLT

Every carrier on MCO to CLT combined arrived on time 78.4% of the time across 4,739 flights, so AA 1896 is 16 points ahead of it. American flew 3,679 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 20 points.

AA 1896 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1896thin sample	318	93.9%	70 min	1.26%	A
All American Airlines on MCO–CLT	3,679	78.8%	88 min	1.60%	B
All carriers on MCO–CLT	4,739	78.4%	84 min	1.84%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1896 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1896 held fairly steady: 95.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202569 flights95.5%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights92.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights92.1%
Apr–Jun 202680 flights96.2%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1896 ranged from 90.0% on Sunday to 100.0% on Friday. With about 45 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AA 1896 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 84% of the 1,338 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.

Carrier
84%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
7%

The largest share of delay minutes, 84%, 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 1,130 of the 1,338 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,338 delay minutes reported on AA 1896.

Cancellations sit at 1.26% 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 3.2% 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 same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including SYR to PHL (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1896 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to CLT only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 318 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 1896

For a booking, AA 1896 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 93.9% on time and 1.26% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

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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