Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1264
Cleveland (CLE) to Charlotte (CLT) · scheduled 12:36 PM – 2:12 PM
How AA1264 performs
621 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on CLE → CLT, AA1264 averaged about 4 operations a week (621 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1264 arrived on time 83.0% of the time, against 79.7% for all CLE → CLT flights, so this departure is 3.3 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 2.2 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 621 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1264 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1264 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1264 | 83.0% | 1.61% | -9 min | 3.8% | 621 |
| American Airlines on CLE → CLT | 80.8% | 1.40% | -7 min | 7.3% | 5,279 |
| All CLE → CLT flights | 79.7% | 1.66% | -7 min | 7.9% | 5,952 |
AA1264 cancelled 10 of 621 operations (1.61%), close to the 1.66% for CLE → CLT.
3.8% of AA1264’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 7.9% across CLE → CLT, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why AA1264 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1264 on CLE → CLT. 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 AA1264 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA1264 came in 15 or more minutes late on 14% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into CLE: 596 of 611 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 |
|---|---|
| AA1264 | 14% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
51 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 45 to 59 minutes. How often AA1264’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves CLE late, does that still matter by the time it reaches CLT?
AA1264 pushes back an average of 11.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at CLT an average of 4.1 minutes late. The 6.9 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 13.3 minutes on the taxiways at CLE, 1.4 minutes shorter than a typical CLE departure in the same hour.
On arrival at CLT, AA1264 spends 13.5 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 CLT 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 6,547 CLE departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 633,359 arrivals at CLT. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves CLE
AA1264 has one departure time, 12:36 PM, so this is what that hour at CLE is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 6,547 departures from CLE are scheduled in the 12 PM–1 PM hour over the period, against 130,418 across the whole day.
AA1264 is scheduled out of CLE at 12:36 PM, in the 12 PM–1 PM bank. Departures from CLE in that hour arrive on time 82.5% of the time against 80.8% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour AA1264 leaves in is an ordinary one for CLE and explains nothing about its record either way.
Both airport figures cover every destination from CLE, 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 AA1264 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1264 also served these 14 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLT→CLE Charlotte to Cleveland | July 1, 2023 – August 31, 2026 | 577 | 86.7% |
| LGA→ORD New York to Chicago | April 10, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 21 | — |
| ORD→LGA Chicago to New York | April 7, 2026 – May 19, 2026 | 29 | — |
| TPA→LGA Tampa to New York | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 19 | — |
| LGA→TPA New York to Tampa | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 17 | — |
| LAX→PHX Los Angeles to Phoenix | November 20, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 12 | — |
| MIA→CLT Miami to Charlotte | November 2–19, 2025 | 18 | — |
| PHX→DFW Phoenix to Dallas–Fort Worth | March 9–16, 2025 | 2 | — |
| PHL→PVD Philadelphia to Providence/Warwick | February 13, 2025 – March 5, 2025 | 21 | — |
| CLT→ORF Charlotte to Norfolk | January 7, 2025 – February 12, 2025 | 36 | — |
| ORF→CLT Norfolk to Charlotte | January 7, 2025 – February 12, 2025 | 36 | — |
| DFW→PHL Dallas–Fort Worth to Philadelphia | December 19, 2024 – January 6, 2025 | 19 | — |
| DFW→SFO Dallas–Fort Worth to San Francisco | November 5, 2023 – December 17, 2024 | 144 | 72.9% |
| SFO→DFW San Francisco to Dallas–Fort Worth | November 5, 2023 – December 17, 2024 | 86 | — |
The figures above describe only CLE → CLT, the route AA1264 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
29 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 621 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2021 | American Airlines | 84.0% | 9 min early | 682 |
| AA1264 this flight | American Airlines | 83.0% | 9 min early | 621 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA1264 has the lowest on-time rate, 1.0 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 621 records of AA1264 operating CLE → CLT, 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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