AA419

AA419 arrived on time 64.4% of the time, against 80.7% for all CLT → DTW flights, so this departure is 16.3 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 11.3 points worse.

AA419’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 10:30 PM earlier on, and around 8:45 PM more recently — a 105-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 612 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA419 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far behind the CLT → DTW route as a whole, worse than 94% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

64.4% on time for this specific departure, against 80.7% for every CLT → DTW flight.

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

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA419 on CLT → DTW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA419 pushed back an average of 60 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 6 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into CLT just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 481 of 606 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

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

AA419 pushes back an average of 26.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at DTW an average of 21.5 minutes late. The 4.5 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 18.3 minutes on the taxiways at CLT, 4.2 minutes shorter than a typical CLT departure in the same hour.

On arrival at DTW, AA419 spends 9.6 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 about what any arrival at DTW spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached DTW. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 56,899 departures from CLT scheduled in the clock hour AA419 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DTW (388,616 flights), not just AA419’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA419 is scheduled out of CLT at 8:46 PM, in the 8 PM–9 PM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 64.8% of the time against 74.8% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.0 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from CLT to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA419 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA419 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• DL1405 CLT→DTW Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 6:00 AM, on time 94.7%
• AA2649 MIA→DTW American Airlines flight into DTW, MIA to DTW, departs 9:06 PM, on time 66.9%
• AA1580 CLT→SFO American Airlines flight out of CLT, CLT to SFO, departs 8:15 PM, on time 63.1%