Flight number record

AA 1903

American Airlines · Raleigh to Charlotte

Route: RDU → CLT
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1903's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 174 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

95.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights

Avg delay

70 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.19%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 1903 flies

AA 1903 flies RDU to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 129 of 365 flights, with 05:00 (109 flights) and 05:05 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00129 flights35.3%
Departs 05:00109 flights29.9%
Departs 05:0537 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 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 6 points better at 95.0%. 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 1903 next to RDU to CLT

Every carrier on RDU to CLT combined arrived on time 82.4% of the time across 3,070 flights, so AA 1903 is 13 points ahead of it. American flew 3,051 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 21 points.

AA 1903 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1903	365	95.0%	70 min	2.19%	A
All American Airlines on RDU–CLT	3,051	82.3%	86 min	1.61%	B
All carriers on RDU–CLT	3,070	82.4%	86 min	1.66%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1903 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1903 held fairly steady: 98.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights98.9%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights92.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%

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

By weekday, AA 1903 ranged from 90.2% on Wednesday to 100.0% on Thursday. With about 52 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 1903 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 85% of the 1,266 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
85%
National Airspace System
12%
Late-arriving aircraft
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 85%, 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 1,081 of the 1,266 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,266 delay minutes reported on AA 1903.

Cancellations sit at 2.19% 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 2.0% 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.

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.

What to do with this

Booking AA 1903

For a booking, read AA 1903 as 95.0% on time with 2.19% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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