Flight number record
AA 2022
American Airlines · Charlotte to Tampa
- Route
- CLT → TPA
- Departs
- 20:15
- Flights
- 353
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2022, check with American Airlines.
AA 2022 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2022 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 106 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.27%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
11.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 353 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% 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 2022 flies
AA 2022 flies CLT to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:15, used on 137 of 353 flights, with 19:20 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:15137 flights38.8%
- Departs 19:2053 flights15.0%
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 20:15 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 2022 runs 4 points worse at 67.0%. 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 2022 next to CLT to TPA
Every carrier on CLT to TPA combined arrived on time 75.1% of the time across 3,205 flights, so AA 2022 is 8 points behind it. American flew 2,978 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2022thin sample | 353 | 67.0% | 65 min | 2.27% | C |
| All American Airlines on CLT–TPA | 2,978 | 75.4% | 61 min | 1.58% | B |
| All carriers on CLT–TPA | 3,205 | 75.1% | 63 min | 1.65% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2022 quarter by quarter
AA 2022 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 56.0%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 88 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 202585 flights56.0%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights72.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights62.9%
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2022 did best on Wednesday at 86.3% on time and worst on Friday at 52.9%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 33 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2022 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 7,449 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.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,449 delay minutes reported on AA 2022.
Cancellations sit at 2.27% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 11.3% 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.
The 507 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
Every one of the 353 flights under AA 2022 in the data flew CLT to TPA. 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. 353 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 2022
For a booking, AA 2022 is one of the weaker ways to fly CLT to TPA: 8 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.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to TPA, every carrier and departure
- TPA to CLT, the return direction
- American Airlines 1550 on the same route72.1%
- American Airlines 1773 on the same route61.5%
- American Airlines 2915 on the same route77.1%
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.