AA1784

AA1784 arrived on time 85.1% of the time, against 75.9% for all ORD → CLT flights, so this departure is 9.2 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 8.7 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 861 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1784 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1784 on ORD → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

AA1784 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.3 hours on the ground at ORD, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1784 pushed back an average of 11 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into ORD just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 693 of 847 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

AA1784 pushes back an average of 8.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at CLT an average of 4.6 minutes late. The 4.1 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 18.2 minutes on the taxiways at ORD, 6.1 minutes shorter than a typical ORD departure in the same hour.

On arrival at CLT, AA1784 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.

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 CLT. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 67,479 departures from ORD scheduled in the clock hour AA1784 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at CLT (618,237 flights), not just AA1784’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA1784 is scheduled out of ORD at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from ORD in that hour arrive on time 86.6% of the time against 74.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.1 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from ORD 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.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA1784 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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA1784 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• AA2842 ORD→CLT American Airlines on the same route, departs 5:00 AM, on time 90.7%
• AA536 CLT→ORD Return trip, CLT to ORD, departs 4:24 PM, on time 63.5%
• AA1509 BOS→ORD American Airlines flight into ORD, BOS to ORD, departs 7:00 AM, on time 91.1%
• AA703 CLT→BUF American Airlines flight out of CLT, CLT to BUF, departs 10:45 PM, on time 62.5%