Flight number record
AA 2604
American Airlines · Charlotte to Sarasota
- Route
- CLT → SRQ
- Departs
- 19:00
- Flights
- 256
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2604, check with American Airlines.
AA 2604 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 256 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 251 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.95%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 256 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% 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 2604 flies
AA 2604 flies CLT to SRQ without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:00, used on 89 of 256 flights, with 20:09 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 19:0089 flights34.8%
- Departs 20:0937 flights14.5%
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 19:00 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AA 2604 runs 8 points better at 75.7%. 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 2604 next to CLT to SRQ
Every carrier on CLT to SRQ combined arrived on time 77.8% of the time across 1,427 flights, so AA 2604 is 2 points behind it. American flew 1,022 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2604thin sample | 256 | 75.7% | 77 min | 1.95% | B |
| All American Airlines on CLT–SRQ | 1,022 | 75.6% | 69 min | 2.15% | B |
| All carriers on CLT–SRQ | 1,427 | 77.8% | 67 min | 1.75% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2604 quarter by quarter
AA 2604 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 67.9%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 64 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 202561 flights75.4%
- Oct–Dec 202557 flights82.5%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights67.9%
- Apr–Jun 202649 flights81.6%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2604 did best on Tuesday at 91.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 64.5%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2604 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 4,678 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.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 40%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
53% 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 4,678 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 53 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 4,678 delay minutes reported on AA 2604.
Cancellations sit at 1.95% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.0% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 547 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.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including SLC to DFW (41), ORD to AUS (31) and JAC to DFW (10), but none flew often enough under AA 2604 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CLT to SRQ only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 256 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 2604
For a booking, read AA 2604 as 75.7% on time with 1.95% cancelled over 256 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to SRQ, every carrier and departure
- SRQ to CLT, the return direction
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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.