Carrier route record
AAAVP→CLT
American Airlines · Avoca to Charlotte
- Flights
- 281
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 29%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on AVP to CLT lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 281 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on AVP 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
76.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 268 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.63%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
85.7%
Every carrier on AVP to CLT, 978 flights
These figures cover 281 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on AVP to CLT
American flew 281 of the 978 flights on AVP to CLT, about 29% of it. Its 76.9% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 85.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 89.1% to American at 76.9%.
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 Airlines (this page)thin sample | 281 | 76.9% | 80 min | 4.63% | B− |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 34 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am109 flights90.1%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm86 flights81.7%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm86 flights56.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 56.5% on time, against 90.1% for the 5am–8am 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 109 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on AVP to CLT through the year
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights80.9%
- Jan–Mar 202674 flights80.6%
- Apr–Jun 202635 flights70.6%
- Jul–Sep 202683 flights72.3%
Scale runs 60% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 76.9% on time across 281 flights.
American on AVP to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.9% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 70.6%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 70 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 85.7% on time and Friday the weakest at 68.3%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on AVP to CLT runs when it is late
American on AVP to CLT often beats the schedule: 105 of 268 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 62 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early105 flights39.2%
- Within 15 min101 flights37.7%
- 15–29 min late15 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late19 flights7.1%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late12 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 268 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 59 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on AVP to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 July 2026, 5 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).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 January 2026 | 5 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 November 2025 | 4 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 December 2025 | 3 hours 57 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 August 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 4,983 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,983 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. The split is drawn from 4,983 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.1% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.63%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
10.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 runs 74.5% on time across 282 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 281 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 AVP to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.63% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 268 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.