Flight number record
AA 2794
American Airlines · Charlotte to Newark
- Route
- CLT → EWR
- Departs
- 20:33
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 361 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 2794 runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 148 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.60%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
17.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2794 flies
AA 2794 flies CLT to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:33, used on 45 of 361 flights, with 20:04 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 20:3345 flights12.5%
- Departs 20:0437 flights10.2%
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 20:33 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AA 2794 runs 8 points worse at 62.5%. 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 2794 next to CLT to EWR
Every carrier on CLT to EWR combined arrived on time 75.9% of the time across 3,690 flights, so AA 2794 is 13 points behind it. American flew 1,831 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.5% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2794thin sample | 361 | 62.5% | 74 min | 3.60% | D− |
| All American Airlines on CLT–EWR | 1,831 | 71.5% | 77 min | 3.50% | C− |
| All carriers on CLT–EWR | 3,690 | 75.9% | 83 min | 4.47% | B− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 2026 at 50.0%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 72 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 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights51.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights74.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights68.9%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights50.0%
Scale runs 40% to 80%.
By weekday, AA 2794 did best on Wednesday at 72.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 52.2%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2794 runs when it is late
The 130 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 60 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early81 flights23.3%
- Within 15 min136 flights39.2%
- 15–29 min late34 flights9.8%
- 30–59 min late36 flights10.4%
- 1–2 hours late31 flights8.9%
- 2+ hours late29 flights8.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 347 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 138 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2794
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 July 2026, 5 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | 5 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 July 2026 | 4 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 June 2026 | 3 hours 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 July 2026 | 3 hours 33 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 18 June 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 9,594 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%National Airspace System
- 18%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,594 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 9,594 delay minutes reported on AA 2794.
Cancellations run at 3.60%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
17.3% 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 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.
Every one of the 361 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. 361 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: 3.60% of its 361 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
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.