Carrier route record
AACLT→SRQ
American Airlines · Charlotte to Sarasota
- Flights
- 936
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 70%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on CLT to SRQ lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 936 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on CLT to SRQ from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 914 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.4%
Every carrier on CLT to SRQ, 1,346 flights
These figures cover 936 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on CLT to SRQ
American flew 936 of the 1,346 flights on CLT to SRQ, most of the route. Its 76.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.4% to American at 76.1%. Two 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 | 138 | 82.4% | 65 min | 1.45% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 272 | 79.3% | 65 min | 0.37% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 936 | 76.1% | 73 min | 1.92% | B |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on CLT to SRQ
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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 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am173 flights88.6%
- 11am–2pm11 flights—
- 2pm–5pm123 flights85.3%
- 5pm–8pm369 flights68.4%
- 8pm–5am260 flights74.7%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 88.6% of the time, against 68.4% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 369 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CLT to SRQ through the year
July is the worst month at 62.3% on time, 23 points below May, the best at 85.5%. 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. November was the busiest month here, with 104 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.3%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CLT to SRQ runs when it is late
American on CLT to SRQ often beats the schedule: 244 of 914 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 218 late arrivals split 65 under half an hour, 76 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 77 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early244 flights26.7%
- Within 15 min452 flights49.5%
- 15–29 min late65 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late76 flights8.3%
- 1–2 hours late45 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late32 flights3.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 914 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
29 of 232 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 15 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CLT to SRQ
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 July 2026, 11 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across July, April, September, August and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 July 2026 | 11 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 April 2026 | 10 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 September 2025 | 8 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 August 2026 | 6 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 March 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 4%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. The split is drawn from 15,911 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 88.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.43%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.4% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 547 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 89.2% on time across 935 flights, 13 points above 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 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 936 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 American on CLT to SRQ
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 936 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 76.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 914 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to SRQ, every carrier
- American on SRQ to CLT, the return leg
- Envoy Air on CLT to SRQ82.4%
- PSA Airlines on CLT to SRQ79.3%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- 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.