Carrier route record
AASRQ→CLT
American Airlines · Sarasota to Charlotte
- Flights
- 935
- 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 SRQ to CLT earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 935 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's SRQ to CLT record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 119 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 915 completed flights
Avg delay
102 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.82%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
85.6%
Every carrier on SRQ to CLT, 1,345 flights
These figures cover 935 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 SRQ to CLT
American flew 935 of the 1,345 flights on SRQ to CLT, most of the route. Its 89.2% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 85.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 89.2% to Envoy at 75.7%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page) | 935 | 89.2% | 102 min | 1.82% | A |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 272 | 78.5% | 89 min | 0.37% | B+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 138 | 75.7% | 59 min | 1.45% | B |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on SRQ to CLT
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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 10 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am299 flights93.2%
- 8am–11am224 flights91.4%
- 11am–2pm172 flights86.9%
- 2pm–5pm26 flights—
- 5pm–8pm195 flights82.8%
- 8pm–5am19 flights—
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.2% of the time, against 82.8% for the evening window. That is 10 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 299 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on SRQ to CLT through the year
January is the weak month at 84.6% on time, against 92.1% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. November was the busiest month here, with 103 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 95.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 83.2%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on SRQ to CLT runs when it is late
American on SRQ to CLT often beats the schedule: 435 of 915 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 99 late arrivals split 29 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 43 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early435 flights47.5%
- Within 15 min381 flights41.6%
- 15–29 min late29 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late27 flights3.0%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late19 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 915 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
25 of 116 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. Only 8 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on SRQ to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 July 2026, 25 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2026 | 25 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 July 2026 | 15 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 February 2026 | 8 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 July 2026 | 6 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 January 2026 | 6 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 10,079 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,064 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.82% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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 76.1% on time across 936 flights, 13 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 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 935 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 SRQ to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 935 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 89.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 915 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SRQ to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to SRQ, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on SRQ to CLT78.5%
- Envoy Air on SRQ to CLT75.7%
- 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.