Flight number record

AA 1954

American Airlines · San Diego to Charlotte

Route: SAN → CLT
Departs: 12:40
Flights: 251
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1954, check with American Airlines.

AA 1954 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 251 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

78.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 245 completed flights

Avg delay

104 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.99%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 251 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% 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 1954 flies

AA 1954 flies SAN to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:40, used on 50 of 251 flights, with 12:09 (44 flights) and 11:31 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:4050 flights19.9%
Departs 12:0944 flights17.5%
Departs 11:3131 flights12.4%

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 12:40 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 1954 runs level with that at 78.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 1954 next to SAN to CLT

Every carrier on SAN to CLT combined arrived on time 83.5% of the time across 1,427 flights, so AA 1954 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

AA 1954 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1954thin sample	251	78.0%	104 min	1.99%	B
All American Airlines on SAN–CLT	1,427	83.5%	106 min	1.12%	B
All carriers on SAN–CLT	1,427	83.5%	106 min	1.12%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1954 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1954 held fairly steady: 78.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 76.5% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 77.6% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202573 flights78.1%
Oct–Dec 202582 flights76.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.6%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1954 ranged from 73.0% on Sunday to 81.2% on Saturday. With about 36 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.

Delay causes

Why AA 1954 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 5,625 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
34%
Carrier
34%
Extreme weather
24%
National Airspace System
8%

Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 3.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,625 delay minutes reported on AA 1954.

Cancellations sit at 1.99% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.40%.

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. 9.0% 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.

At 2,077 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including CLT to SAN (196), MIA to MCO (44) and PHX to CVG (40), but none flew often enough under AA 1954 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SAN to CLT only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 251 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 1954

For a booking, AA 1954 is one of the weaker ways to fly SAN to CLT: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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