Carrier route record
AACLT→CVG
American Airlines · Charlotte to Cincinnati
- Flights
- 961
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 54%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on CLT to CVG sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 961 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on CLT to CVG runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 54 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 943 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.66%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.6%
Every carrier on CLT to CVG, 1,772 flights
These figures cover 961 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% 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 CVG
American flew 961 of the 1,772 flights on CLT to CVG, most of the route. Its 71.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 87.8% to American at 71.9%. 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 | 54 | 87.8% | 68 min | 9.26% | A− |
| PSA Airlines | 757 | 74.8% | 71 min | 1.98% | C |
| American Airlines (this page) | 961 | 71.9% | 77 min | 1.66% | 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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am44 flights93.0%
- 8am–11am89 flights94.0%
- 11am–2pm82 flights61.0%
- 2pm–5pm164 flights70.6%
- 5pm–8pm147 flights72.8%
- 8pm–5am435 flights67.7%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 61.0% on time against 94.0% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 435 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CLT to CVG through the year
June is the worst month at 58.5% on time, 25 points below September, the best at 83.3%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 137 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 60.1%, a spread of 24 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CLT to CVG runs when it is late
American on CLT to CVG often beats the schedule: 244 of 943 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 265 late arrivals split 70 under half an hour, 103 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 92 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early244 flights25.9%
- Within 15 min434 flights46.0%
- 15–29 min late70 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late103 flights10.9%
- 1–2 hours late55 flights5.8%
- 2+ hours late37 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 943 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
52 of 294 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 23 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CLT to CVG
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 13 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 13 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 June 2026 | 9 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 8 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 8 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 October 2025 | 8 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 20,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
61% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 20,339 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 94.0% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.66% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.21%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.8% 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 335 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.5% on time across 961 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 961 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 CVG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 961 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 71.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 943 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to CVG, every carrier
- American on CVG to CLT, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on CLT to CVG74.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.