Carrier route record
AACLT→AVP
American Airlines · Charlotte to Avoca
- Flights
- 198
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 21%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on CLT to AVP lands a B−, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 198 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate American on CLT to AVP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 184 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.06%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
83.0%
Every carrier on CLT to AVP, 947 flights
These figures cover 198 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on CLT to AVP
American flew 198 of the 947 flights on CLT to AVP, about 21% of it. Its 79.3% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 87.1% to American at 79.3%. 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 | 32 | 87.1% | 66 min | 3.12% | A− |
| PSA Airlines | 717 | 83.7% | 58 min | 1.26% | B |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 198 | 79.3% | 53 min | 6.06% | B− |
Departure window
When American 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 198 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am60 flights80.0%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm56 flights76.4%
- 5pm–8pm9 flights—
- 8pm–5am73 flights80.0%
Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 80.0% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
American on CLT to AVP through the year
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights75.9%
- Jan–Mar 202674 flights85.7%
- Apr–Jun 202635 flights76.5%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 79.3% on time across 198 flights.
Quarter by quarter American on CLT to AVP held fairly steady: 75.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 76.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 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 86.7% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 76.7%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 1,997 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 4%National Airspace System
- 4%Security
- 3%Extreme weather
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,997 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,997 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 80.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 6.06%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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
7.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 55 minutes, 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 78.9% on time across 198 flights, within half a point 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. 198 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 AVP
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.06% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you roughly 55 minutes; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 184 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.