Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2573
Charlotte (CLT) to Philadelphia (PHL) · scheduled 1:01 PM – 2:38 PM
How AA2573 performs
605 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on CLT → PHL, AA2573 averaged about 4 operations a week (605 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2573 arrived on time 78.1% of the time, against 72.6% for all CLT → PHL flights, so this departure is 5.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 3.6 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 605 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2573 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA2573 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2573 | 78.1% | 0.83% | -4 min | 6.2% | 605 |
| American Airlines on CLT → PHL | 74.5% | 1.92% | -3 min | 8.8% | 9,598 |
| All CLT → PHL flights | 72.6% | 2.33% | -2 min | 10.3% | 11,886 |
AA2573 has cancelled 0.83% of its scheduled departures (5 of 605), against 2.33% for all CLT → PHL flights — this specific departure cancels 1.5 percentage points less 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 AA2573 specifically, not about the route it flies.
6.2% of AA2573’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 10.3% across CLT → PHL, 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 AA2573 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 AA2573 on CLT → PHL. 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 AA2573 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA2573 came in 15 or more minutes late on 11% 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: 556 of 600 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 |
|---|---|
| AA2573 | 11% |
| 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 AA2573’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 PHL?
AA2573 pushes back an average of 10.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at PHL an average of 6.1 minutes late. The 4.3 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 18.0 minutes on the taxiways at CLT, 1.7 minutes shorter than a typical CLT departure in the same hour.
On arrival at PHL, AA2573 spends 7.0 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 shorter than a typical PHL arrival (8.2 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 44,344 CLT departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 315,181 arrivals at PHL. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves CLT
AA2573 has one departure time, 1:01 PM, so this is what that hour at CLT is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 44,344 departures from CLT are scheduled in the 1 PM–2 PM hour over the period, against 633,368 across the whole day.
AA2573 is scheduled out of CLT at 1:01 PM, in the 1 PM–2 PM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 79.1% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.5 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 AA2573 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2573 also served these 7 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHL→CLT Philadelphia to Charlotte | April 7, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 118 | 84.3% |
| DEN→CLT Denver to Charlotte | November 2, 2025 – April 6, 2026 | 150 | 86.8% |
| DRO→DFW Durango to Dallas–Fort Worth | October 6, 2025 – November 1, 2025 | 27 | — |
| DTW→PHL Detroit to Philadelphia | October 29, 2024 | 1 | — |
| PHX→SFO Phoenix to San Francisco | June 5, 2024 – September 3, 2024 | 91 | 71.4% |
| MIA→DFW Miami to Dallas–Fort Worth | May 6, 2024 – June 4, 2024 | 30 | — |
| AUS→CLT Austin to Charlotte | July 1, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 125 | 89.5% |
The figures above describe only CLT → PHL, the route AA2573 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
36 min late
against a median of 4 min early
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2573 this flight | American Airlines | 78.1% | 4 min early | 605 |
| AA1648 | American Airlines | 65.1% | 0 min early | 827 |
| F91384 | Frontier Airlines | 61.1% | 3 min late | 753 |
Among all 3 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2573 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 605 records of AA2573 operating CLT → PHL, 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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