Flight number record
AA 2794
American Airlines · Charlotte to Newark
- Route
- CLT → EWR
- Departs
- 20:30
- Flights
- 359
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2794, check with American Airlines.
AA 2794 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2794 runs 17 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 168 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
60.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.90%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
18.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 359 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.3% 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 2794 flies
AA 2794 flies CLT to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:30, used on 54 of 359 flights, with 20:33 (46 flights) and 20:04 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:3054 flights15.0%
- Departs 20:3346 flights12.8%
- Departs 20:0437 flights10.3%
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 20:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 2794 runs 10 points worse at 60.8%. 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 2794 next to CLT to EWR
Every carrier on CLT to EWR combined arrived on time 74.5% of the time across 3,755 flights, so AA 2794 is 14 points behind it. American flew 1,826 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2794thin sample | 359 | 60.8% | 77 min | 3.90% | D− |
| All American Airlines on CLT–EWR | 1,826 | 70.7% | 76 min | 3.67% | C− |
| All carriers on CLT–EWR | 3,755 | 74.5% | 87 min | 3.94% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2794 quarter by quarter
AA 2794 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 48.2%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 90 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 202589 flights48.2%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights51.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights74.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights68.9%
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2794 did best on Tuesday at 71.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 50.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2794 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 10,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 39%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
39% 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 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 10,348 delay minutes reported on AA 2794.
Cancellations run at 3.90%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
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. 18.3% 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 529 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 359 flights under AA 2794 in the data flew CLT to EWR. 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. 359 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 2794
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2794: 3.90% of its 359 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to CLT, the return direction
- American Airlines 1330 on the same route61.9%
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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.