Flight number record

AA 2909

American Airlines · Charlotte to Valparaiso

Route: CLT → VPS
Departs: 15:08
Flights: 277
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2909, check with American Airlines.

AA 2909 lands a B+, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

On time

76.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 275 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.72%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 277 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% 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 2909 flies

AA 2909 flies CLT to VPS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:08, used on 54 of 277 flights, with 15:02 (44 flights) and 14:30 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:0854 flights19.5%
Departs 15:0244 flights15.9%
Departs 14:3042 flights15.2%

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 15:08 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 2909 runs 4 points better at 76.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 2909 next to CLT to VPS

Every carrier on CLT to VPS combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 1,206 flights, so AA 2909 is about level with it. American flew 865 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

AA 2909 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2909thin sample	277	76.7%	66 min	0.72%	B+
All American Airlines on CLT–VPS	865	76.2%	66 min	1.04%	B
All carriers on CLT–VPS	1,206	76.6%	67 min	1.99%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2909 quarter by quarter

AA 2909 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 88.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 64.7%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 69 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 202564 flights75.0%
Oct–Dec 202576 flights88.2%
Jan–Mar 202652 flights64.7%
Apr–Jun 202685 flights75.0%

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2909 did best on Wednesday at 83.8% on time and worst on Friday at 64.1%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2909 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 63% of the 4,214 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
63%
Carrier
23%
National Airspace System
14%

63% 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 4,214 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 63 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 4,214 delay minutes reported on AA 2909.

Cancellations are rare at 0.72%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

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. 9.8% 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.

AA 2909 is not only a CLT to VPS flight. It also flew VPS to CLT (274 flights, 76.8% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 277 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.

Other routes flown as AA 2909
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
VPS to CLTthin sample	274	76.8%	92 min	0.73%	B+

What to do with this

Booking AA 2909

For a booking, read AA 2909 as 76.7% on time with 0.72% cancelled over 277 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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.

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