Carrier route record
AACLT→AVP
American Airlines · Charlotte to Avoca
- Flights
- 282
- 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 CLT to AVP sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 282 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 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
74.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 267 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.26%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.4%
Every carrier on CLT to AVP, 978 flights
These figures cover 282 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% 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 AVP
American flew 282 of the 978 flights on CLT to AVP, about 29% of it. Its 74.5% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 81.2% to American at 74.5%.
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 Airlines (this page)thin sample | 282 | 74.5% | 64 min | 4.26% | 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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am87 flights84.1%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm86 flights67.9%
- 5pm–8pm9 flights—
- 8pm–5am100 flights70.7%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 84.1% of the time, against 67.9% for the afternoon 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 100 flights scheduled in it.
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%
- Jul–Sep 202684 flights63.9%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 74.5% on time across 282 flights.
American on CLT to AVP did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 85.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 63.9%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 71 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 79.1% on time and Friday the weakest at 70.0%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CLT to AVP runs when it is late
The 68 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early57 flights21.3%
- Within 15 min142 flights53.2%
- 15–29 min late15 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late26 flights9.7%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights7.9%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 267 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 77 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CLT to AVP
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 August 2026, 5 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2026 | 5 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 July 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 20 July 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 December 2025 | 2 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 February 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 4,356 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 2%Security
61% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,356 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 4,356 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 84.1% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.26%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
10.1% 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 76.9% on time across 281 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. 282 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 4.26% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; 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. 267 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
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.