AA2011

AA2011 arrived on time 87.7% of the time, against 77.5% for all IAH → CLT flights, so this departure is 10.2 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 7.9 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,075 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2011 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the IAH → CLT route as a whole, better than 90% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

87.7% on time for this specific departure, against 77.5% for every IAH → CLT flight.

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

AA2011 has cancelled 3.35% of its scheduled departures (36 of 1,075), against 2.05% for all IAH → CLT flights — this specific departure cancels 1.3 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 AA2011 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 AA2011 on IAH → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

AA2011 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8.2 hours on the ground at IAH, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2011 pushed back an average of 7 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 5 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into IAH just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 926 of 1,039 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

AA2011 pushes back an average of 13.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at CLT an average of 8.2 minutes late. The 4.8 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. Its 15.6 minutes on the taxiways at IAH is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at CLT, AA2011 spends 14.2 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 1.4 minutes longer than a typical CLT arrival (12.8 min).

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 14,228 departures from IAH scheduled in the clock hour AA2011 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 AA2011’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA2011 is scheduled out of IAH at 6:34 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from IAH in that hour arrive on time 88.3% of the time against 77.4% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.8 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from IAH 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 AA2011 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. AA2011 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.

• AA1840 CLT→IAH Return trip, CLT to IAH, departs 10:20 PM, on time 63.7%
• AA1042 OMA→CLT American Airlines flight into CLT, OMA to CLT, departs 6:25 AM, on time 89.0%
• AA1266 MSY→CLT American Airlines flight into CLT, MSY to CLT, departs 7:00 AM, on time 90.1%
• AA419 CLT→DTW American Airlines flight out of CLT, CLT to DTW, departs 8:46 PM, on time 64.4%