Carrier route record
MQATL→CLT
Envoy Air · Atlanta to Charlotte
- Flights
- 178
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 4%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ATL to CLT sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 45 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 178 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, PSA Airlines, flew 1,311 at 81.8% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ATL to CLT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 172 completed flights
Avg delay
44 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.37%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
81.1%
Every carrier on ATL to CLT, 4,408 flights
These figures cover 178 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ATL to CLT
Envoy flew 178 of the 4,408 flights on ATL to CLT, about 4% of it. Its 74.4% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 81.8% to Envoy at 74.4%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 1,311 | 81.8% | 95 min | 2.44% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 2,610 | 81.3% | 60 min | 1.15% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 309 | 80.7% | 108 min | 2.59% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 178 | 74.4% | 44 min | 3.37% | C− |
No carrier stands out. PSA tops the table at 81.8%, half a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am17 flights—
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm14 flights—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm68 flights76.2%
- 8pm–5am78 flights62.3%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 62.3% on time, against 76.2% for the 5pm–8pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 78 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ATL to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202531 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202551 flights76.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights65.5%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 74.4% on time across 178 flights.
Envoy on ATL to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 65.5%, a swing of 35 points on roughly 59 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 1,922 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%National Airspace System
- 14%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,922 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,922 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.37%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 226 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.2% on time across 177 flights, 10 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 178 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking Envoy on ATL to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.37% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you roughly 45 minutes; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 172 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to CLT, every carrier
- Envoy on CLT to ATL, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on ATL to CLT81.8%
- Delta Air Lines on ATL to CLT81.3%
- American Airlines on ATL to CLT80.7%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.