Route reliability record
AVL→CLT
Asheville to Charlotte
- Flights
- 759
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 91 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B−, 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.1 hours on average. That rests on 759 AVL to CLT flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Best time to fly AVL to CLT: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.9% of the time and Wednesday flights 91.8%, against 83.8% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 65 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 736 completed flights
Avg delay
128 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.03%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
84.5% on time across 422 flights
These figures cover 759 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on AVL to CLT
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 24 | 85.7% | 60 min | 12.50% | A− |
| PSA Airlines | 422 | 84.5% | 149 min | 3.79% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 313 | 82.8% | 106 min | 1.28% | B |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Asheville to Charlotte
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 2 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. AVL → CLTAsheville to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 81.3% | 84.5% | 3.79% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. GSP → CLTGreer to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 79.8% | 82.0% | 2.71% | 5am–8am, Thu | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am385 flights88.1%
- 8am–11am37 flights91.9%
- 11am–2pm46 flights83.7%
- 2pm–5pm70 flights83.8%
- 5pm–8pm203 flights75.0%
- 8pm–5am18 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 75.0% for the evening window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 385 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter AVL to CLT by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On AVL to CLT, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 91.9% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 75.0%, a wide gap of 16.9 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am88.1%
- 8–11am91.9%
- 11am–2pm83.7%
- 2–5pm83.8%
- 5–8pm75.0%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 29 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
December is the weak month at 62.1% on time, against 90.9% in January. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. September was the busiest month here, with 109 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 91.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.0%, a spread of 15 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 15,192 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,320 of the 15,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.03%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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 actually costs
8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.1 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 91 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 73.9% on time across 757 flights, 10 points below 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. 759 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in CLT after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.03% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 736 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
AVL to CLT questions
How often is AVL to CLT delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 16.2% of the 759 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about 2.1 hours on average.
How reliable is AVL to CLT compared with the rest of the country?
83.8% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 7 points in its favour. That is worth a B− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on AVL to CLT?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 91.9% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 75.0%, 17 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are December delays on AVL to CLT?
December is the weakest month at 62.1% on time, compared with 90.9% in January. Across the year that is 29 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to AVL — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on AVL to CLT84.5%
- American Airlines on AVL to CLT82.8%
- AVL to ATL, a related route86.3%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- AVL to ORD, a related route73.3%
- Envoy Air on-time record85.7%
- PSA Airlines on-time record84.5%
- American Airlines on-time record82.8%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. AVL to CLT and CLT to AVL are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.