Route reliability record
AVP→CLT
Avoca to Charlotte
- Flights
- 978
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 509 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 978 AVP to CLT flights, with a median arrival 18 minutes early.
Best time to fly AVP to CLT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.8% of the time and Wednesday flights 91.7%, against 85.7% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 956 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.15%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
89.1% on time across 697 flights
These figures cover 978 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 18 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
Which airline is most reliable on AVP 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 697 | 89.1% | 105 min | 1.15% | A |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 281 | 76.9% | 80 min | 4.63% | B− |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Avoca 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. AVP → CLTAvoca to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 88.1% | 89.1% | 1.15% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. ABE → CLTAllentown to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 79.4% | 82.7% | 3.96% | 11am–2pm, Fri | — |
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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am365 flights91.8%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm351 flights88.7%
- 2pm–5pm10 flights—
- 5pm–8pm252 flights72.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.8% of the time, against 72.8% for the evening window. That is 19 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 365 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter AVP 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 AVP to CLT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 91.8% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 72.8%, a wide gap of 19.0 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am91.8%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm88.7%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm72.8%
- 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 25 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.
July is the worst month at 70.9% on time, 25 points below April, the best at 95.6%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. May was the busiest month here, with 91 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 91.7% on time and Friday the weakest at 82.6%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 51% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Carrier
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 24 to one. The split is drawn from 12,886 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,523 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.15% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.10%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
6.2% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 509 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.4% on time across 978 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. 978 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: treat all of this as provisional. 978 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 85.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 956 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
AVP to CLT questions
How often is AVP to CLT delayed?
About one flight in seven arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 14.3% of the 978 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is AVP to CLT compared with the rest of the country?
85.7% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 8 points in its favour. That is worth a A on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on AVP to CLT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 91.8% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 72.8%, 19 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 July delays on AVP to CLT?
July is the weakest month at 70.9% on time, compared with 95.6% in April. Across the year that is 25 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 AVP — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on AVP to CLT89.1%
- American Airlines on AVP to CLT76.9%
- AVP to ORD, a related route76.4%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- ORD to CLT, a related route73.7%
- PSA Airlines on-time record89.1%
- American Airlines on-time record76.9%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. AVP to CLT and CLT to AVP 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.