Route reliability record
CLT→CRW
Charlotte to Charleston
- Flights
- 1,134
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 221 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.0% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,134 CLT to CRW flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly CLT to CRW: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 85.3% of the time and Tuesday flights 81.0%, against 73.1% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 42 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,084 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.97%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
73.1% on time across 1,134 flights
These figures cover 1,134 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on CLT to CRW
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 | 1,134 | 73.1% | 63 min | 3.97% | C− |
Flight by flight
Flights on CLT to CRW
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am365 flights83.9%
- 11am–2pm36 flights85.3%
- 2pm–5pm208 flights67.3%
- 5pm–8pm192 flights60.5%
- 8pm–5am333 flights70.3%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.5% on time, against 85.3% for the 11am–2pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter CLT to CRW 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 CRW, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 85.3% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 60.5%, a wide gap of 24.8 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am83.9%
- 11am–2pm85.3%
- 2–5pm67.3%
- 5–8pm60.5%
- 8pm–5am70.3%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 28 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 55.0% on time, 28 points below October, the best at 82.6%. 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. November was the busiest month here, with 112 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 81.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 64.8%, a spread of 16 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 18,383 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.97%, 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 actually costs
10.7% 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.
At 221 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 78.3% on time across 1,134 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,134 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in CRW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.97% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,084 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to CRW questions
How often is CLT to CRW delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 26.9% of the 1,134 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is CLT to CRW compared with the rest of the country?
73.1% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 4 points against it. That is worth a C− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on CLT to CRW?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 85.3% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 60.5%, 25 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 CRW?
July is the weakest month at 55.0% on time, compared with 82.6% in October. Across the year that is 28 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
- CRW to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- ORD to CRW, a related route60.8%
- CLT to ORD, a related route72.4%
- PSA Airlines on-time record73.1%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. CLT to CRW and CRW 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.