Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2127
Charlotte (CLT) to Orlando (MCO) · scheduled 11:20 AM – 1:01 PM
How AA2127 performs
630 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on CLT → MCO, AA2127 averaged about 4 operations a week (630 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2127 arrived on time 84.7% of the time, against 70.9% for all CLT → MCO flights, so this departure is 13.8 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 13.3 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 630 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2127 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA2127 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 96% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
84.7% on time for this specific departure, against 71.4% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 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.
Where AA2127 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2127 | 84.7% | 0.48% | -8 min | 4.3% | 630 |
| American Airlines on CLT → MCO | 71.4% | 1.51% | -1 min | 11.5% | 12,493 |
| All CLT → MCO flights | 70.9% | 1.79% | -1 min | 12.0% | 16,353 |
AA2127 cancelled 3 of 630 operations (0.48%), below the 1.79% for CLT → MCO; on a count this small the difference is not a finding.
4.3% of AA2127’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 12.0% across CLT → MCO, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA2127 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
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2127 on CLT → MCO. 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 AA2127 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA2127 came in 15 or more minutes late on 8% 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 627 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 |
|---|---|
| AA2127 | 8% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
69 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 AA2127’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 November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves CLT late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MCO?
AA2127 pushes back an average of 6.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at MCO an average of 0.6 minutes late. The 6.1 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 18.6 minutes on the taxiways at CLT, 3.2 minutes shorter than a typical CLT departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MCO, AA2127 spends 12.0 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 1.2 minutes longer than a typical MCO arrival (10.9 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 62,424 CLT departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 510,310 arrivals at MCO. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves CLT
AA2127 has one departure time, 11:20 AM, so this is what that hour at CLT is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 62,424 departures from CLT are scheduled in the 11 AM–12 PM hour over the period, against 633,368 across the whole day.
AA2127 is scheduled out of CLT at 11:20 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 82.6% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.0 points better 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 AA2127 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2127 also served these 15 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCO→CLT Orlando to Charlotte | November 5, 2023 – August 31, 2026 | 507 | 80.6% |
| IND→DFW Indianapolis to Dallas–Fort Worth | May 24, 2026 | 1 | — |
| CLT→ORD Charlotte to Chicago | May 21–23, 2026 | 3 | — |
| PHX→MEM Phoenix to Memphis | November 2, 2025 – April 6, 2026 | 104 | 73.1% |
| MIA→LGA Miami to New York | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 37 | — |
| MIA→STX Miami to Christiansted | December 17, 2025 | 1 | — |
| AUS→PHX Austin to Phoenix | December 4–15, 2025 | 6 | — |
| BOS→CLT Boston to Charlotte | December 5–12, 2025 | 2 | — |
| PHL→DFW Philadelphia to Dallas–Fort Worth | June 5, 2024 – November 4, 2024 | 153 | 85.4% |
| PHL→AUS Philadelphia to Austin | May 7, 2024 – June 4, 2024 | 24 | — |
| CLE→ORD Cleveland to Chicago | May 26, 2024 | 1 | — |
| DFW→OKC Dallas–Fort Worth to Oklahoma City | May 25, 2024 | 1 | — |
| PHX→ELP Phoenix to El Paso | April 4, 2024 – May 5, 2024 | 32 | — |
| MCO→MIA Orlando to Miami | July 1, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 97 | 67.7% |
| MIA→MCO Miami to Orlando | September 6, 2023 – October 4, 2023 | 29 | — |
The figures above describe only CLT → MCO, the route AA2127 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
27 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 630 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2127 this flight | American Airlines | 84.7% | 8 min early | 630 |
| F91555 | Frontier Airlines | 69.9% | 3 min early | 601 |
| AA1879 | American Airlines | 61.7% | 5 min late | 1,088 |
| AA1682 | American Airlines | 57.8% | 9 min late | 716 |
Among all 4 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2127 has the highest on-time rate. 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 630 records of AA2127 operating CLT → MCO, 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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