Carrier route record

MQCLT→ATL

Envoy Air · Charlotte to Atlanta

Flights: 177
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 CLT to ATL earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 177 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 2,611 at 87.2% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's CLT to ATL record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 171 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.39%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.3%

Every carrier on CLT to ATL, 4,409 flights

These figures cover 177 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on CLT to ATL

Envoy flew 177 of the 4,409 flights on CLT to ATL, about 4% of it. Its 84.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 87.2% to American at 70.5%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 87.2% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 78.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,310 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on CLT to ATL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	2,611	87.2%	80 min	1.34%	A
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	177	84.2%	49 min	3.39%	B−
PSA Airlines	1,310	78.2%	66 min	2.37%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	311	70.5%	78 min	2.57%	C

Delta leads PSA by 9 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Departure window

When Envoy 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 177 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's CLT to ATL record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 84.2% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Envoy on CLT to ATL through the year

Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202551 flights88.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.8%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 70% 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 84.2% on time across 177 flights.

Envoy on CLT to ATL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.8%, a swing of 14 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

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 1,324 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
40%
National Airspace System
30%
Late-arriving aircraft
26%
Extreme weather
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 526 of the 1,324 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,324 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 3.39%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

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 74.4% on time across 178 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. 177 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 CLT to ATL

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.39% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 50 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. 171 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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