AA2693

Between its first and last recorded date on SRQ → CLT, AA2693 averaged about 1 operation a week (161 in 1,123 days, cancelled ones included).

AA2693 arrived on time 87.5% of the time, against 81.6% for all SRQ → CLT flights, so this departure is 5.9 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.9 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 161 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2693 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

AA2693 cancelled 1 of 161 operations (0.62%), below the 2.18% for SRQ → CLT; on a count this small the difference is not a finding.

3.8% of AA2693’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 7.7% across SRQ → CLT, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2693 on SRQ → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean

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

AA2693 pushes back an average of 15.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at CLT an average of 9.3 minutes late. The 5.9 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 14.3 minutes on the taxiways at SRQ, 1.2 minutes longer than a typical SRQ departure in the same hour.

On arrival at CLT, AA2693 spends 12.1 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.

Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 2,534 SRQ departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 618,237 arrivals at CLT. More on taxi time.

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

AA2693 is scheduled out of SRQ at 8:19 AM, in the 8 AM–9 AM bank. Departures from SRQ in that hour arrive on time 93.3% of the time against 80.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.8 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

Both airport figures cover every destination from SRQ, 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

The figures above describe only SRQ → CLT, the route AA2693 flies now.

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

Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2693 has the lowest on-time rate, 3.2 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.

• AA2021 CLE→CLT American Airlines flight into CLT, CLE to CLT, departs 8:15 AM, on time 83.8%
• AA1518 DCA→CLT American Airlines flight into CLT, DCA to CLT, departs 8:30 AM, on time 85.7%
• AA1704 TPA→CLT American Airlines flight into CLT, TPA to CLT, departs 8:30 AM, on time 85.3%