Flight number record

AA 2021

American Airlines · Cleveland to Charlotte

Route: CLE → CLT
Departs: 08:10
Flights: 270
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2021, check with American Airlines.

AA 2021 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 270 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2021's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 263 completed flights

Avg delay

113 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.22%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 270 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2021 flies

AA 2021 flies CLE to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:10, used on 59 of 270 flights, with 08:04 (33 flights) and 08:00 (27 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:1059 flights21.9%
Departs 08:0433 flights12.2%
Departs 08:0027 flights10.0%

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 08:10 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 2021 runs level with that at 85.9%. 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 2021 next to CLE to CLT

Every carrier on CLE to CLT combined arrived on time 80.5% of the time across 1,800 flights, so AA 2021 is 5 points ahead of it. American flew 1,400 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

AA 2021 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2021thin sample	270	85.9%	113 min	2.22%	A
All American Airlines on CLE–CLT	1,400	82.7%	102 min	1.36%	B
All carriers on CLE–CLT	1,800	80.5%	104 min	2.17%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2021 quarter by quarter

AA 2021 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 80.9%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 68 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 202564 flights93.7%
Oct–Dec 202582 flights81.7%
Jan–Mar 202677 flights87.3%
Apr–Jun 202647 flights80.9%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. 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 Monday at 75.6%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2021 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 82% of the 4,178 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
82%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
5%
Late-arriving aircraft
4%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 82%, 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 3,418 of the 4,178 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,178 delay minutes reported on AA 2021.

Cancellations sit at 2.22% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.37%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.5% 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 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 85.9% on time with 2.22% cancelled over 270 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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