Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2182
Washington (DCA) to Charlotte (CLT) · scheduled 5:30 PM – 7:07 PM
How AA2182 performs
605 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on DCA → CLT, AA2182 averaged about 4 operations a week (605 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2182 arrived on time 66.3% of the time, against 77.8% for all DCA → CLT flights, so this departure is 11.5 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 12.4 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 605 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2182 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 AA2182 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the carrier's own average on this route, worse than 92% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
66.3% on time for this specific departure, against 78.7% 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 AA2182 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2182 | 66.3% | 2.81% | 0 min | 16.9% | 605 |
| American Airlines on DCA → CLT | 78.7% | 2.42% | -9 min | 9.5% | 8,026 |
| All DCA → CLT flights | 77.8% | 2.24% | -8 min | 9.7% | 9,639 |
AA2182 cancelled 17 of 605 operations (2.81%), above the 2.24% for DCA → CLT.
16.9% of AA2182’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 9.7% across DCA → CLT, 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 AA2182 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
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2182 on DCA → CLT. 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 AA2182 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2182 pushed back an average of 61 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 8 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into DCA: 559 of 590 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2182 | 30% | 74% | 12% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
61 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 AA2182’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA2182 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft ranks the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DCA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches CLT?
AA2182 pushes back an average of 31.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at CLT an average of 26.6 minutes late. The 5.2 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 25.0 minutes on the taxiways at DCA, 1.4 minutes longer than a typical DCA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at CLT, AA2182 spends 11.6 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 shorter than a typical CLT arrival (12.8 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 38,015 DCA departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 633,359 arrivals at CLT. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves DCA
AA2182 has one departure time, 5:30 PM, so this is what that hour at DCA is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 38,015 departures from DCA are scheduled in the 5 PM–6 PM hour over the period, against 447,230 across the whole day.
AA2182 is scheduled out of DCA at 5:30 PM, in the 5 PM–6 PM bank. Departures from DCA in that hour arrive on time 66.2% of the time against 76.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.1 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from DCA, 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 AA2182 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2182 also served these 12 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUF→ORD Buffalo to Chicago | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
| ORD→BUF Chicago to Buffalo | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
| ORD→AUS Chicago to Austin | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 26 | — |
| FLL→DFW Fort Lauderdale to Dallas–Fort Worth | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 24 | — |
| FLL→CLT Fort Lauderdale to Charlotte | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 37 | — |
| MIA→CLT Miami to Charlotte | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 17 | — |
| SBA→PHX Santa Barbara to Phoenix | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| MIA→STX Miami to Christiansted | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 31 | — |
| STX→MIA Christiansted to Miami | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 31 | — |
| BNA→PHX Nashville to Phoenix | July 1, 2023 – November 4, 2024 | 219 | 78.0% |
| BNA→LAX Nashville to Los Angeles | June 5, 2024 – September 3, 2024 | 91 | 87.9% |
| MIA→PHX Miami to Phoenix | April 4, 2024 – May 5, 2024 | 32 | — |
The figures above describe only DCA → CLT, the route AA2182 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
95 min late
against a median of 0 min early
AA2182 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 0 min early, but the worst tenth are 95 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 605 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1518 | American Airlines | 85.9% | 9 min early | 660 |
| AA2182 this flight | American Airlines | 66.3% | 0 min early | 605 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2182 has the lowest on-time rate, 19.6 points behind the best. 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 605 records of AA2182 operating DCA → CLT, 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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