Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1072
Charlotte (CLT) to Milwaukee (MKE) · scheduled 10:50 PM – 11:59 PM
How AA1072 performs
605 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on CLT → MKE, AA1072 averaged about 4 operations a week (605 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1072 arrived on time 68.1% of the time, against 72.4% for all CLT → MKE flights, so this departure is 4.3 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 4.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 605 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1072 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1072 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1072 | 68.1% | 0.83% | 3 min | 12.2% | 605 |
| American Airlines on CLT → MKE | 72.1% | 1.27% | -2 min | 10.2% | 2,759 |
| All CLT → MKE flights | 72.4% | 1.46% | -2 min | 9.8% | 3,210 |
AA1072 cancelled 5 of 605 operations (0.83%), below the 1.46% for CLT → MKE.
12.2% of AA1072’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 9.8% across CLT → MKE, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA1072 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1072 on CLT → MKE. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA1072 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1072 pushed back an average of 51 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 9 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into CLT: 536 of 600 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1072 | 30% | 57% | 18% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
77 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often AA1072’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA1072 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves CLT late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MKE?
AA1072 pushes back an average of 24.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at MKE an average of 20.4 minutes late. The 4.5 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. Its 19.2 minutes on the taxiways at CLT is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at MKE, AA1072 spends 5.6 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at MKE spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 49,869 CLT departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 90,583 arrivals at MKE. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves CLT
AA1072 has one departure time, 10:50 PM, so this is what that hour at CLT is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 49,869 departures from CLT are scheduled in the 10 PM–11 PM hour over the period, against 633,368 across the whole day.
AA1072 is scheduled out of CLT at 10:50 PM, in the 10 PM–11 PM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 66.4% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.2 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from CLT, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA1072 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1072 also served these 6 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DCA→DFW Washington to Dallas–Fort Worth | October 6, 2025 – April 6, 2026 | 130 | 57.7% |
| DFW→DCA Dallas–Fort Worth to Washington | April 4, 2024 – January 5, 2026 | 97 | 69.1% |
| PHX→CLT Phoenix to Charlotte | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| CLT→IAD Charlotte to Washington | August 30–31, 2025 | 2 | — |
| ORF→CLT Norfolk to Charlotte | July 1, 2023 – November 4, 2024 | 245 | 88.9% |
| IND→DFW Indianapolis to Dallas–Fort Worth | July 5, 2024 | 1 | — |
The figures above describe only CLT → MKE, the route AA1072 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
74 min late
against a median of 3 min late
AA1072 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 3 min late, but the worst tenth are 71 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 605 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 605 records of AA1072 operating CLT → MKE, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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