Flight number record
AA 2915
American Airlines · Charlotte to Tampa
- Route
- CLT → TPA
- Departs
- 13:00
- Flights
- 257
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2915, check with American Airlines.
AA 2915 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly 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 257 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.56%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 257 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 2915 flies
AA 2915 flies CLT to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:00, used on 53 of 257 flights, with 13:03 (37 flights) and 14:10 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:0053 flights20.6%
- Departs 13:0337 flights14.4%
- Departs 14:1037 flights14.4%
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 13:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 2915 runs level with that at 77.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 2915 next to CLT to TPA
Every carrier on CLT to TPA combined arrived on time 75.1% of the time across 3,205 flights, so AA 2915 is 2 points ahead of it. American flew 2,978 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2915thin sample | 257 | 77.1% | 67 min | 1.56% | B |
| All American Airlines on CLT–TPA | 2,978 | 75.4% | 61 min | 1.58% | B |
| All carriers on CLT–TPA | 3,205 | 75.1% | 63 min | 1.65% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2915 quarter by quarter
AA 2915 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 84.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 69.6%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 86 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 202592 flights69.6%
- Oct–Dec 202569 flights84.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.2%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2915 did best on Friday at 88.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.9%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2915 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 3,902 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.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
59% 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 3,902 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 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 3,902 delay minutes reported on AA 2915.
Cancellations sit at 1.56% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 9.1% 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 507 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.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including TPA to CLT (226), SNA to JFK (43) and JFK to SNA (43), but none flew often enough under AA 2915 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CLT to TPA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 257 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 2915
For a booking, read AA 2915 as 77.1% on time with 1.56% cancelled over 257 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to TPA, every carrier and departure
- TPA to CLT, the return direction
- American Airlines 2022 on the same route67.0%
- American Airlines 1550 on the same route72.1%
- American Airlines 1773 on the same route61.5%
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
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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.