Carrier route record

OOCLT→BHM

SkyWest Airlines · Charlotte to Birmingham

Flights: 132
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 7%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on CLT to BHM earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 132 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's CLT to BHM record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 118 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 132 completed flights

Avg delay

118 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.8%

Every carrier on CLT to BHM, 1,778 flights

These figures cover 132 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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

SkyWest against every carrier on CLT to BHM

SkyWest flew 132 of the 1,778 flights on CLT to BHM, about 7% of it. Its 89.4% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 83.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 89.4% to American at 82.5%. Two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on CLT to BHM
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	132	89.4%	118 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines	1,114	83.7%	64 min	1.71%	B
Envoy Airthin sample	197	82.7%	81 min	0.00%	B+
American Airlinesthin sample	335	82.5%	79 min	2.99%	B

Departure window

When SkyWest 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 132 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's CLT to BHM record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 89.4% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

SkyWest on CLT to BHM through the year

Jul–Sep 202564 flights90.6%
Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
Apr–Jun 202641 flights90.2%

Scale runs 80% to 95%. 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 89.4% on time across 132 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on CLT to BHM logged 64 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 27 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 41 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 89.4% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 54% of the 1,658 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.

Carrier
54%
Extreme weather
28%
Late-arriving aircraft
15%
National Airspace System
4%

Extreme weather accounts for 28% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 4.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,658 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, 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 889 of the 1,658 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.1% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 350 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.9% on time across 132 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 132 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 SkyWest on CLT to BHM

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 132 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 89.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 132 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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