Flight profile · American Airlines
AA358
Charlotte (CLT) to Santa Ana (SNA) · scheduled 6:10 PM – 8:52 PM
How AA358 performs
606 operations, October 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on CLT → SNA, AA358 averaged about 4 operations a week (606 in 1,062 days, cancelled ones included).
AA358 arrived on time 71.5% of the time, against 73.3% for all CLT → SNA flights, so this departure is 1.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.8 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 606 operations, October 2023 – August 2026 · If AA358 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA358 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA358 | 71.5% | 0.33% | 0 min | 11.2% | 606 |
| American Airlines on CLT → SNA | 73.3% | 0.87% | -2 min | 9.7% | 1,150 |
| All CLT → SNA flights | 73.3% | 0.87% | -2 min | 9.7% | 1,150 |
AA358 cancelled 2 of 606 operations (0.33%), below the 0.87% for CLT → SNA.
11.2% of AA358’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 9.7% across CLT → SNA, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – August 2026
Why AA358 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 AA358 on CLT → SNA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA358 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA358 came in 15 or more minutes late on 18% 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: 524 of 604 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 |
|---|---|
| AA358 | 18% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
67 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 AA358’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as 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 October 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves CLT late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SNA?
AA358 pushes back an average of 23.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at SNA an average of 15.0 minutes late. The 8.0 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 20.0 minutes on the taxiways at CLT, 1.4 minutes shorter than a typical CLT departure in the same hour.
On arrival at SNA, AA358 spends 6.7 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 SNA 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 52,301 CLT departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 141,256 arrivals at SNA. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves CLT
AA358 has one departure time, 6:10 PM, so this is what that hour at CLT is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 52,301 departures from CLT are scheduled in the 6 PM–7 PM hour over the period, against 633,368 across the whole day.
AA358 is scheduled out of CLT at 6:10 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 65.2% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.4 points worse 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 · October 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA358 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA358 also served these 8 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHL→LAS Philadelphia to Las Vegas | November 6, 2024 – March 28, 2025 | 117 | 82.8% |
| STT→JFK Charlotte Amalie to New York | January 11, 2025 – February 8, 2025 | 5 | — |
| PHL→STT Philadelphia to Charlotte Amalie | November 9–16, 2024 | 2 | — |
| PHX→MRY Phoenix to Monterey | October 29, 2024 – November 2, 2024 | 4 | — |
| CLT→PHX Charlotte to Phoenix | August 6, 2024 – September 3, 2024 | 28 | — |
| DFW→TYS Dallas–Fort Worth to Knoxville/Maryville | June 8, 2024 – August 3, 2024 | 9 | — |
| DFW→IAH Dallas–Fort Worth to Houston | September 6, 2023 – October 4, 2023 | 29 | — |
| PHL→AUS Philadelphia to Austin | July 1, 2023 – September 5, 2023 | 67 | — |
The figures above describe only CLT → SNA, the route AA358 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
62 min late
against a median of 0 min early
AA358 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 0 min early, but the worst tenth are 62 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 606 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2023 – August 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 606 records of AA358 operating CLT → SNA, 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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