Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1586
Charlotte (CLT) to Charleston (CHS) · scheduled 6:20 PM – 7:28 PM
How AA1586 performs
674 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on CLT → CHS, AA1586 averaged about 5 operations a week (674 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1586 arrived on time 68.0% of the time, against 76.1% for all CLT → CHS flights, so this departure is 8.1 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 6.2 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 674 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1586 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1586 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1586 | 68.0% | 1.78% | -1 min | 12.1% | 674 |
| American Airlines on CLT → CHS | 74.2% | 1.41% | -3 min | 9.6% | 6,041 |
| All CLT → CHS flights | 76.1% | 1.61% | -3 min | 8.6% | 8,469 |
AA1586 cancelled 12 of 674 operations (1.78%), close to the 1.61% for CLT → CHS.
12.1% of AA1586’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.6% across CLT → CHS, 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 AA1586 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 AA1586 on CLT → CHS. 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 AA1586 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA1586 came in 15 or more minutes late on 20% 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 CLT: 586 of 662 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 |
|---|---|
| AA1586 | 20% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
62 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 AA1586’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as 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 November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves CLT late, does that still matter by the time it reaches CHS?
AA1586 pushes back an average of 19.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at CHS an average of 15.2 minutes late. The 4.6 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 18.7 minutes on the taxiways at CLT, 2.7 minutes shorter than a typical CLT departure in the same hour.
On arrival at CHS, AA1586 spends 7.3 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 CHS 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 52,301 CLT departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 79,420 arrivals at CHS. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves CLT
AA1586 has one departure time, 6:20 PM, so this is what that hour at CLT is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 52,301 departures from CLT are scheduled in the 6 PM–7 PM hour over the period, against 633,368 across the whole day.
AA1586 is scheduled out of CLT at 6:20 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 65.2% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.4 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 AA1586 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1586 also served these 15 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHS→CLT Charleston to Charlotte | November 5, 2023 – August 31, 2026 | 612 | 74.2% |
| ORD→SFO Chicago to San Francisco | April 7, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 90 | 58.9% |
| ATL→CLT Atlanta to Charlotte | December 18, 2024 | 1 | — |
| CLT→ATL Charlotte to Atlanta | December 18, 2024 | 1 | — |
| CLT→ILM Charlotte to Wilmington | December 17, 2024 | 1 | — |
| ILM→CLT Wilmington to Charlotte | December 17, 2024 | 1 | — |
| AUS→PHL Austin to Philadelphia | October 7, 2024 – November 3, 2024 | 26 | — |
| EWR→ORD Newark to Chicago | September 4, 2024 – October 6, 2024 | 33 | — |
| LAX→CLT Los Angeles to Charlotte | July 6, 2024 – September 3, 2024 | 59 | — |
| DFW→ORD Dallas–Fort Worth to Chicago | June 5, 2024 – July 4, 2024 | 30 | — |
| PHX→OMA Phoenix to Omaha | May 6, 2024 – June 4, 2024 | 30 | — |
| SLC→PHX Salt Lake City to Phoenix | December 20, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 17 | — |
| PHX→SLC Phoenix to Salt Lake City | December 21, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 16 | — |
| ORD→MCO Chicago to Orlando | December 8–15, 2023 | 4 | — |
| AUS→DFW Austin to Dallas–Fort Worth | September 6, 2023 – October 4, 2023 | 25 | — |
The figures above describe only CLT → CHS, the route AA1586 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
70 min late
against a median of 1 min early
AA1586 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 1 min early, 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 674 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 674 records of AA1586 operating CLT → CHS, 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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