Flight number record
AA 2909
American Airlines · Valparaiso to Charlotte
- Route
- VPS → CLT
- Departs
- 16:40
- Flights
- 277
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2909, check with American Airlines.
AA 2909 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
73.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 275 completed flights
Avg delay
122 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.72%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 277 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2909 flies
AA 2909 flies VPS to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:40, used on 81 of 277 flights, with 16:46 (44 flights) next.
- Departs 16:4081 flights29.2%
- Departs 16:4644 flights15.9%
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 16:40 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AA 2909 runs level with that at 73.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AA 2909 next to VPS to CLT
Every carrier on VPS to CLT combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 1,206 flights, so AA 2909 is 5 points behind it. American flew 826 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.1% 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 2909thin sample | 277 | 73.8% | 122 min | 0.72% | C+ |
| All American Airlines on VPS–CLT | 826 | 81.1% | 131 min | 1.09% | B |
| All carriers on VPS–CLT | 1,206 | 78.6% | 131 min | 2.65% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 91.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 54.4%, a swing of 38 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 20259 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202574 flights91.9%
- Jan–Mar 202652 flights66.7%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights72.6%
- Jul–Sep 202657 flights54.4%
Scale runs 45% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2909 did best on Wednesday at 88.9% on time and worst on Friday at 60.0%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2909 runs when it is late
AA 2909 often beats the schedule: 86 of 275 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When AA 2909 is late it tends to be very late: 40 of its 72 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 18 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early86 flights31.3%
- Within 15 min117 flights42.5%
- 15–29 min late18 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late14 flights5.1%
- 1–2 hours late22 flights8.0%
- 2+ hours late18 flights6.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 275 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 89 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2909
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 July 2026, 25 hours 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2026 | 25 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 15 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 13 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 May 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 February 2026 | 4 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2909 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 8,766 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,766 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. The split is drawn from 8,766 delay minutes reported on AA 2909.
Cancellations are rare at 0.72%, below the national 1.89% 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
14.5% 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.
AA 2909 is not only a VPS to CLT flight. It also flew CLT to VPS (252 flights, 73.5% 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLT to VPSthin sample | 252 | 73.5% | 60 min | 0.79% | C+ |
What to do with this
Booking AA 2909
For a booking, AA 2909 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 14.5% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- VPS to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to VPS, 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.