Carrier route record

AAAVL→CLT

American Airlines · Asheville to Charlotte

Flights: 313
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 41%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.

American on AVL to CLT lands a B, 6 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 close to two hours on average. That rests on 313 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, American's AVL to CLT record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 309 completed flights

Avg delay

106 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.28%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

83.8%

Every carrier on AVL to CLT, 759 flights

These figures cover 313 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

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Carrier by carrier

American against every carrier on AVL to CLT

American flew 313 of the 759 flights on AVL to CLT, about 41% of it. Its 82.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.7% to American at 82.8%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on AVL to CLT
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 Airlines (this page)thin sample	313	82.8%	106 min	1.28%	B

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Departure window

When American runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 313 flights.

5am–8am141 flights85.8%
8am–11am18 flights—
11am–2pm1 flights—
2pm–5pm11 flights—
5pm–8pm124 flights77.7%
8pm–5am18 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 85.8% of the time, against 77.7% for the evening window. That is 8 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 141 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on AVL to CLT through the year

Jul–Sep 202561 flights78.7%
Oct–Dec 202560 flights83.3%
Jan–Mar 2026130 flights83.3%
Apr–Jun 202657 flights89.5%
Jul–Sep 20265 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. 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 82.8% on time across 313 flights.

American on AVL to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 78.7%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 78 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.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 95.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.3%, a spread of 23 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late American on AVL to CLT runs when it is late

American on AVL to CLT often beats the schedule: 137 of 309 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 53 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.

15+ min early137 flights44.3%
Within 15 min119 flights38.5%
15–29 min late21 flights6.8%
30–59 min late8 flights2.6%
1–2 hours late13 flights4.2%
2+ hours late11 flights3.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 309 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

15 of 60 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for American on AVL to CLT

The latest arrival of the period was on 1 February 2026, 17 hours 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).

The latest arrivals of American on AVL to CLT in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
1 February 2026	17 hours 49 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
11 October 2025	11 hours 55 minutes	Carrier
26 September 2025	5 hours 57 minutes	Carrier
5 March 2026	4 hours 13 minutes	Carrier
12 October 2025	4 hours 2 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 5,599 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
53%
Carrier
39%
National Airspace System
8%

53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,599 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 53 to one. The split is drawn from 5,599 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,190 of the 5,599 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.28% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.8% 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 close to two 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.5% on time across 311 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 313 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 American on AVL to CLT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 313 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 82.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 309 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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