Flight number record
AA 1903
American Airlines · Raleigh to Charlotte
- Route
- RDU → CLT
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1903, check with American Airlines.
AA 1903 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1903's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 171 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 1903 flies
AA 1903 flies RDU to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 106 of 365 flights, with 05:00 (79 flights) and 05:01 (62 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00106 flights29.0%
- Departs 05:0079 flights21.6%
- Departs 05:0162 flights17.0%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1903 runs 5 points better at 94.4%. 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 1903 next to RDU to CLT
Every carrier on RDU to CLT combined arrived on time 81.9% of the time across 3,030 flights, so AA 1903 is 13 points ahead of it. American flew 3,010 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 20 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1903 | 365 | 94.4% | 87 min | 1.92% | A |
| All American Airlines on RDU–CLT | 3,010 | 81.8% | 85 min | 1.50% | B |
| All carriers on RDU–CLT | 3,030 | 81.9% | 85 min | 1.55% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1903 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1903 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 96.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 96.7% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights92.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.7%
Scale runs 85% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 1903 ranged from 90.2% on Wednesday to 98.1% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1903 runs when it is late
AA 1903 often beats the schedule: 175 of 358 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 20 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early175 flights48.9%
- Within 15 min163 flights45.5%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.0%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.1%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 20 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1903
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 August 2026, 5 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2026 | 5 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 June 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 February 2026 | 2 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 July 2026 | 2 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1903 runs late
Carrier accounts for 86% of the 1,732 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 86%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 2%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 86%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,498 of the 1,732 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,732 delay minutes reported on AA 1903.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, 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 2.5% 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under AA 1903 in the data flew RDU to CLT. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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.
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For a booking, read AA 1903 as 94.4% on time with 1.92% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- RDU to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to RDU, the return direction
- Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) delay statistics
- 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
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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.