Flight number record
AA 2604
American Airlines · Charlotte to Sarasota
- Route
- CLT → SRQ
- Departs
- 19:00
- Flights
- 252
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2604, check with American Airlines.
AA 2604 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.98%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 252 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 252 flights, with 20:09 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 19:0089 flights35.3%
- Departs 20:0937 flights14.7%
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 19:00 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 2604 runs 7 points better at 74.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 2604 next to CLT to SRQ
Every carrier on CLT to SRQ combined arrived on time 77.4% of the time across 1,346 flights, so AA 2604 is 3 points behind it. American flew 936 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2604thin sample | 252 | 74.5% | 85 min | 1.98% | C |
| All American Airlines on CLT–SRQ | 936 | 76.1% | 73 min | 1.92% | B |
| All carriers on CLT–SRQ | 1,346 | 77.4% | 71 min | 1.56% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2604 quarter by quarter
AA 2604 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 67.9%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 63 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 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202557 flights82.5%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights67.9%
- Apr–Jun 202649 flights81.6%
- Jul–Sep 202627 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2604 did best on Tuesday at 88.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 64.7%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2604 runs when it is late
The 63 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early60 flights24.3%
- Within 15 min124 flights50.2%
- 15–29 min late17 flights6.9%
- 30–59 min late23 flights9.3%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 247 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2604
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 April 2026, 10 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across April, September, August and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2026 | 10 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 September 2025 | 8 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 August 2026 | 6 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 March 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 August 2026 | 5 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2604 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 5,381 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
- 5%National Airspace System
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,381 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 5,381 delay minutes reported on AA 2604.
Cancellations sit at 1.98% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including SLC to DFW (76), ORD to AUS (31) and AUS to ORD (5), 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. 252 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
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For a booking, read AA 2604 as 74.5% on time with 1.98% cancelled over 252 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.