AA1318

AA1318 arrived on time 68.6% of the time, against 73.3% for all CLT → BWI flights, so this departure is 4.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 3.8 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 602 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1318 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

AA1318 has cancelled 3.49% of its scheduled departures (21 of 602), against 1.60% for all CLT → BWI flights — this specific departure cancels 1.9 percentage points more often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about AA1318 specifically, not about the route it flies.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1318 on CLT → BWI. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1318 pushed back an average of 48 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 10 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into CLT just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 488 of 581 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

AA1318 pushes back an average of 22.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at BWI an average of 16.7 minutes late. The 5.8 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 18.8 minutes on the taxiways at CLT, 3.8 minutes shorter than a typical CLT departure in the same hour.

On arrival at BWI, AA1318 spends 6.1 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 BWI spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached BWI. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 3,396 departures from CLT scheduled in the clock hour AA1318 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at BWI (299,179 flights), not just AA1318’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

AA1318 is scheduled out of CLT at 11:00 PM, in the 11 PM–12 AM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 66.8% of the time against 74.8% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.0 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from CLT to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA1318 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

• AA494 CLT→RDU American Airlines flight out of CLT, CLT to RDU, departs 11:00 PM, on time 64.5%
• AA1176 CLT→RSW American Airlines flight out of CLT, CLT to RSW, departs 9:40 PM, on time 69.4%
• AA1749 CLT→PIT American Airlines flight out of CLT, CLT to PIT, departs 8:48 PM, on time 67.8%
• AA2021 CLE→CLT American Airlines flight into CLT, CLE to CLT, departs 8:15 AM, on time 83.8%