Flight number record
AA 2021
American Airlines · Cleveland to Charlotte
- Route
- CLE → CLT
- Departs
- 08:06
- Flights
- 270
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2021, check with American Airlines.
AA 2021 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 270 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2021's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 263 completed flights
Avg delay
120 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.22%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 270 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2021 flies
AA 2021 flies CLE to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:06, used on 34 of 270 flights, with 08:04 (33 flights) and 08:10 (28 flights) next.
- Departs 08:0634 flights12.6%
- Departs 08:0433 flights12.2%
- Departs 08:1028 flights10.4%
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 08:06 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 2021 runs level with that at 83.7%. 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 2021 next to CLE to CLT
Every carrier on CLE to CLT combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 1,780 flights, so AA 2021 is 4 points ahead of it. American flew 1,407 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2021thin sample | 270 | 83.7% | 120 min | 2.22% | B |
| All American Airlines on CLE–CLT | 1,407 | 82.2% | 100 min | 1.35% | B |
| All carriers on CLE–CLT | 1,780 | 79.9% | 102 min | 2.13% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2021 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2021 held fairly steady: 81.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 80.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 20252 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202582 flights81.7%
- Jan–Mar 202677 flights87.3%
- Apr–Jun 202647 flights80.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.6%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2021 did best on Wednesday at 97.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 74.4%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2021 runs when it is late
AA 2021 often beats the schedule: 101 of 263 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When AA 2021 is late it tends to be very late: 22 of its 43 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 9 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early101 flights38.4%
- Within 15 min119 flights45.2%
- 15–29 min late12 flights4.6%
- 30–59 min late9 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 263 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 44 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2021
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 21 hours 38 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 21 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 May 2026 | 8 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 August 2026 | 8 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 July 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 March 2026 | 3 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2021 runs late
Carrier accounts for 85% of the 5,157 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 85%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 4%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 85%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,361 of the 5,157 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,157 delay minutes reported on AA 2021.
Cancellations sit at 2.22% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.37%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including ORD to DEN (44), DEN to ORD (44) and CLT to CVG (33), but none flew often enough under AA 2021 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CLE to CLT only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 270 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 2021
For a booking, read AA 2021 as 83.7% on time with 2.22% cancelled over 270 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- CLE to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to CLE, the return direction
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
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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.