Flight profile · American Airlines
AA985
Miami (MIA) to Charlotte (CLT) · scheduled 3:08 PM – 5:30 PM
How AA985 performs
335 operations, 2023-11-05 to 2026-06-30.
AA985 arrived on time 64.7% of the time, against 76.1% for all MIA → CLT flights — this specific departure is 11.4 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’s own flights on this route it is 10.7 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 335 operations between 2023-11-05 to 2026-06-30
Against the rest of the route
| On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA985 | 64.7% | 0.00% | 3 min | 16.2% | 335 |
| American Airlines on MIA → CLT | 75.4% | 1.20% | -4 min | 9.1% | 9,640 |
| All MIA → CLT flights | 76.1% | 1.35% | -5 min | 8.9% | 10,985 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2023-11-05 to 2026-06-30
Other routes AA985 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHL→PBI Philadelphia to West Palm Beach | 2026-03-08 – 2026-05-20 | 74 | — |
| PBI→PHL West Palm Beach to Philadelphia | 2026-02-12 – 2026-05-20 | 68 | — |
| RSW→DCA Fort Myers to Washington | 2026-01-06 – 2026-02-11 | 37 | — |
| CLT→MIA Charlotte to Miami | 2025-12-18 – 2026-01-05 | 19 | — |
| LGA→ORD New York to Chicago | 2025-12-03 – 2025-12-17 | 13 | — |
| PHX→ORD Phoenix to Chicago | 2025-11-20 – 2025-12-02 | 13 | — |
| CLT→ORD Charlotte to Chicago | 2025-11-02 – 2025-11-16 | 7 | — |
| MCO→ORD Orlando to Chicago | 2024-11-05 – 2025-03-29 | 124 | 82.1% |
| ORD→MCO Chicago to Orlando | 2024-11-05 – 2025-01-06 | 62 | — |
| DFW→CVG Dallas–Fort Worth to Cincinnati / Covington | 2023-07-01 – 2024-11-04 | 337 | 60.9% |
| LGA→RDU New York to Raleigh–Durham | 2024-01-08 – 2024-02-14 | 28 | — |
| DFW→GEG Dallas–Fort Worth to Spokane | 2023-12-20 – 2024-01-07 | 13 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA985 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
90 min late
against a median of 3 min late
AA985 is a flight whose average understates its risk: a typical day arrives 3 min late, but the worst tenth of days are 87 minutes worse than that. If the day has something unmissable in it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 335 operations. Cancelled and diverted flights have no arrival time and are counted separately rather than as very late arrivals.
Why AA985 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, fuelling — 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 AA985 on MIA → CLT. A single late flight can carry more than one cause, and only delays of fifteen minutes or more are attributed at all.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 335 records of AA985 operating MIA → 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 excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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