Flight number record

AA 1962

American Airlines · Charlotte to Pittsburgh

Route: CLT → PIT
Departs: 23:01
Flights: 355
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1962, check with American Airlines.

AA 1962 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 355 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1962 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 66 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.69%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 355 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% 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 1962 flies

AA 1962 flies CLT to PIT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:01, used on 44 of 355 flights, with 22:57 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 23:0144 flights12.4%
Departs 22:5737 flights10.4%

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 23:01 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 1962 runs level with that at 71.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

AA 1962 next to CLT to PIT

Every carrier on CLT to PIT combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 1,932 flights, so AA 1962 is 6 points behind it. American flew 1,773 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

AA 1962 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1962thin sample	355	71.0%	61 min	1.69%	C
All American Airlines on CLT–PIT	1,773	77.8%	63 min	1.24%	B
All carriers on CLT–PIT	1,932	77.1%	63 min	1.60%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1962 quarter by quarter

AA 1962 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.2% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 62.9%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 89 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202589 flights64.0%
Oct–Dec 202585 flights81.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights62.9%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1962 did best on Tuesday at 90.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 55.1%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 35 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1962 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 6,184 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
50%
Carrier
35%
National Airspace System
8%
Extreme weather
6%
Security
1%

50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,184 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,184 delay minutes reported on AA 1962.

Cancellations sit at 1.69% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 355 flights under AA 1962 in the data flew CLT to PIT. 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. 355 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 1962

For a booking, AA 1962 is one of the weaker ways to fly CLT to PIT: 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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