Flight number record
AA 1896
American Airlines · Orlando to Charlotte
- Route
- MCO → CLT
- Departs
- 05:00
- Flights
- 286
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 18 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1896's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 160 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 284 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.70%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 286 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 18 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 1896 flies
AA 1896 is scheduled to leave Orlando (MCO) at 05:00 local time and reach Charlotte (CLT) at 06:45. That slot held for 235 of the 286 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 05:00235 flights82.2%
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 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 4 points better at 93.3%. 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 1896 next to MCO to CLT
Every carrier on MCO to CLT combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 4,735 flights, so AA 1896 is 15 points ahead of it. American flew 3,686 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 19 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1896thin sample | 286 | 93.3% | 67 min | 0.70% | A+ |
| All American Airlines on MCO–CLT | 3,686 | 79.3% | 89 min | 1.68% | B |
| All carriers on MCO–CLT | 4,735 | 78.6% | 84 min | 1.92% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1896 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1896 held fairly steady: 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 20259 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights92.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights92.1%
- Apr–Jun 202680 flights96.2%
- Jul–Sep 202628 flights—
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1896 ranged from 88.2% on Sunday to 100.0% on Friday. With about 41 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1896 runs when it is late
AA 1896 often beats the schedule: 181 of 284 completed flights, 64%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 19 late arrivals split 6 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early181 flights63.7%
- Within 15 min84 flights29.6%
- 15–29 min late6 flights2.1%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.4%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 284 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 17 of 284 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1896
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 January 2026, 3 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 January 2026 | 3 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 February 2026 | 1 hour 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 1 hour 43 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 November 2025 | 1 hour 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1896 runs late
Carrier accounts for 84% of the 1,276 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 84%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 84%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,077 of the 1,276 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,276 delay minutes reported on AA 1896.
Cancellations are rare at 0.70%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% 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 same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including SYR to PHL (1), MCI to CLT (1) and EWR to DFW (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. 286 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: 93.3% on time and 0.70% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
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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.