Route reliability record
CLT→AVP
Charlotte to Avoca
- Flights
- 978
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 509 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 978 CLT to AVP flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Best time to fly CLT to AVP: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 87.8% of the time and Wednesday flights 84.1%, against 79.4% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 955 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.04%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
81.2% on time across 696 flights
These figures cover 978 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 CLT to AVP
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 | 696 | 81.2% | 65 min | 1.15% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 282 | 74.5% | 64 min | 4.26% | C− |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Charlotte to Avoca
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. CLT → AVPCharlotte to Avoca | PSA Airlines | 80.3% | 81.2% | 1.15% | 8am–11am, Mon | — |
| 2. CLT → ABECharlotte to Allentown | PSA Airlines | 73.8% | 76.6% | 3.60% | 11am–2pm, Thu | — |
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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am352 flights87.8%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm265 flights77.6%
- 5pm–8pm11 flights—
- 8pm–5am349 flights71.7%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.8% of the time, against 71.7% for the overnight window. That is 16 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 352 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter CLT to AVP 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 CLT to AVP, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 87.8% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 71.7%, a wide gap of 16.1 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am87.8%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2–5pm77.6%
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am71.7%
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 31 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 62.4% on time, 31 points below September, the best at 93.3%. 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 84.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.6%, a spread of 8 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
51% 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 8 to one. The split is drawn from 12,708 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 87.8% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.04% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
7.6% 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 about an hour, 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 85.7% on time across 978 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. 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 AVP 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 79.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 955 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to AVP questions
How often is CLT to AVP delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.6% of the 978 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is CLT to AVP compared with the rest of the country?
79.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 2 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on CLT to AVP?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 87.8% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 71.7%, 16 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 CLT to AVP?
July is the weakest month at 62.4% on time, compared with 93.3% in September. Across the year that is 31 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
- AVP to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on CLT to AVP81.2%
- American Airlines on CLT to AVP74.5%
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- ORD to AVP, a related route72.3%
- CLT to ORD, a related route72.4%
- PSA Airlines on-time record81.2%
- American Airlines on-time record74.5%
- 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. CLT to AVP and AVP to CLT 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.