Carrier route record
AACLT→AVL
American Airlines · Charlotte to Asheville
- Flights
- 311
- 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 CLT to AVL lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 311 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on CLT to AVL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 306 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.29%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.9%
Every carrier on CLT to AVL, 757 flights
These figures cover 311 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% 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 CLT to AVL
American flew 311 of the 757 flights on CLT to AVL, about 41% of it. Its 76.5% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 90.5% to PSA at 71.0%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 24 | 90.5% | 30 min | 12.50% | A− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 311 | 76.5% | 90 min | 1.29% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 422 | 71.0% | 76 min | 4.27% | C− |
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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 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm11 flights—
- 2pm–5pm40 flights65.8%
- 5pm–8pm115 flights75.2%
- 8pm–5am144 flights79.2%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 79.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 13 points.
Across the year
American on CLT to AVL through the year
- Jul–Sep 202561 flights78.3%
- Oct–Dec 202559 flights71.2%
- Jan–Mar 2026131 flights75.6%
- Apr–Jun 202656 flights80.4%
- Jul–Sep 20264 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 85%. 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 76.5% on time across 311 flights.
Quarter by quarter American on CLT to AVL held fairly steady: 78.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 71.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 75.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 80.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.6%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CLT to AVL runs when it is late
American on CLT to AVL often beats the schedule: 88 of 306 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 72 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 26 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early88 flights28.8%
- Within 15 min146 flights47.7%
- 15–29 min late28 flights9.2%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late14 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 306 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 82 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CLT to AVL
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 February 2026, 18 hours 5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 February 2026 | 18 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 March 2026 | 8 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 April 2026 | 7 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 March 2026 | 5 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 October 2025 | 4 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 6,491 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,491 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 6,491 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,290 of the 6,491 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.29% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.5% 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.
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 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.8% on time across 313 flights, 6 points above 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. 311 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 CLT to AVL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 311 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 76.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 306 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to AVL, every carrier
- American on AVL to CLT, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on CLT to AVL71.0%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.