Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1085
Charlotte (CLT) to Myrtle Beach (MYR) · scheduled 8:59 PM – 10:05 PM
How AA1085 performs
610 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on CLT → MYR, AA1085 averaged about 4 operations a week (610 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1085 arrived on time 64.6% of the time, against 76.4% for all CLT → MYR flights, so this departure is 11.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 7.6 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 610 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1085 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA1085 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 90% of 12,358 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 2 min late, but the worst tenth run 94 minutes worse than that.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where AA1085 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1085 | 64.6% | 2.30% | 2 min | 15.7% | 610 |
| American Airlines on CLT → MYR | 72.2% | 1.29% | -2 min | 11.3% | 3,570 |
| All CLT → MYR flights | 76.4% | 1.83% | -4 min | 8.8% | 7,705 |
AA1085 cancelled 14 of 610 operations (2.30%), close to the 1.83% for CLT → MYR.
15.7% of AA1085’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.8% across CLT → MYR, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why AA1085 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
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1085 on CLT → MYR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA1085 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1085 pushed back an average of 56 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: 493 of 596 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1085 | 27% | 64% | 17% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
76 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 AA1085’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA1085 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves CLT late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MYR?
AA1085 pushes back an average of 29.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at MYR an average of 26.7 minutes late. The 2.9 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. It spends 19.2 minutes on the taxiways at CLT, 3.2 minutes shorter than a typical CLT departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MYR, AA1085 spends 5.0 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 MYR 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 57,956 CLT departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 46,623 arrivals at MYR. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves CLT
AA1085 has one departure time, 8:59 PM, so this is what that hour at CLT is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 57,956 departures from CLT are scheduled in the 8 PM–9 PM hour over the period, against 633,368 across the whole day.
AA1085 is scheduled out of CLT at 8:59 PM, in the 8 PM–9 PM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 64.6% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.0 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 · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA1085 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1085 also served these 12 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→MCI Dallas–Fort Worth to Kansas City | July 4, 2026 | 1 | — |
| GSP→CLT Greenville/Greer/Spartanburg to Charlotte | January 7, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 36 | — |
| LAX→DFW Los Angeles to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 19 | — |
| BOS→CLT Boston to Charlotte | September 4, 2025 – October 5, 2025 | 15 | — |
| DCA→BOS Washington to Boston | August 6, 2025 – September 2, 2025 | 24 | — |
| DFW→PWM Dallas–Fort Worth to Portland | August 9–30, 2025 | 4 | — |
| PWM→DFW Portland to Dallas–Fort Worth | August 9–30, 2025 | 4 | — |
| AVL→MIA Asheville to Miami | July 6, 2025 – August 5, 2025 | 27 | — |
| DFW→DTW Dallas–Fort Worth to Detroit | June 9–30, 2025 | 4 | — |
| DTW→DFW Detroit to Dallas–Fort Worth | June 9–30, 2025 | 4 | — |
| JFK→MIA New York to Miami | June 5, 2025 | 1 | — |
| MFE→DFW McAllen to Dallas–Fort Worth | November 5, 2023 – March 29, 2025 | 238 | 81.0% |
The figures above describe only CLT → MYR, the route AA1085 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
96 min late
against a median of 2 min late
AA1085 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 2 min late, but the worst tenth are 94 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 610 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH5331 | PSA Airlines | 80.1% | 6 min early | 602 |
| AA1085 this flight | American Airlines | 64.6% | 2 min late | 610 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA1085 has the lowest on-time rate, 15.5 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 610 records of AA1085 operating CLT → MYR, 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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