Carrier route record
AABWI→CLT
American Airlines · Baltimore to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,780
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 60%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on BWI to CLT earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 1,780 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's BWI to CLT record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 73 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,749 completed flights
Avg delay
93 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.57%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.8%
Every carrier on BWI to CLT, 2,948 flights
These figures cover 1,780 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on BWI to CLT
American flew 1,780 of the 2,948 flights on BWI to CLT, most of the route. Its 84.6% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 100.0% to Frontier at 71.4%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 1 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,780 | 84.6% | 93 min | 1.57% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 39 | 76.9% | 45 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 965 | 75.5% | 53 min | 1.55% | B |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 163 | 71.4% | 98 min | 5.52% | C− |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am633 flights93.4%
- 8am–11am245 flights87.1%
- 11am–2pm259 flights87.0%
- 2pm–5pm236 flights75.4%
- 5pm–8pm220 flights79.1%
- 8pm–5am187 flights66.3%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.4% of the time, against 66.3% for the overnight window. That is 27 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 633 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on BWI to CLT through the year
July is the worst month at 76.4% on time, 16 points below September, the best at 92.3%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. October was the busiest month here, with 189 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.5%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on BWI to CLT runs when it is late
American on BWI to CLT often beats the schedule: 748 of 1,749 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 269 late arrivals split 88 under half an hour, 66 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 115 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early748 flights42.8%
- Within 15 min732 flights41.9%
- 15–29 min late88 flights5.0%
- 30–59 min late66 flights3.8%
- 1–2 hours late62 flights3.5%
- 2+ hours late53 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,749 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
76 of 299 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 46 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on BWI to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 December 2025, 29 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 December 2025 | 29 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 March 2026 | 19 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 May 2026 | 14 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 March 2026 | 11 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 November 2025 | 9 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 25,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 25,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 32 to one. The split is drawn from 25,132 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,050 of the 25,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.57% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 361 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.4% on time across 1,780 flights, 8 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 8 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,780 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking American on BWI to CLT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 92.3% on time and July 76.4%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,749 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BWI to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to BWI, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on BWI to CLT75.5%
- Frontier Airlines on BWI to CLT71.4%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.