Carrier route record
AACLT→DAB
American Airlines · Charlotte to Daytona Beach
- Flights
- 264
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- 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 DAB lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 264 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on CLT to DAB from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.76%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.7%
Every carrier on CLT to DAB, 1,399 flights
These figures cover 264 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on CLT to DAB
American flew 264 of the 1,399 flights on CLT to DAB, about 19% of it. Its 79.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 79.8% to PSA at 78.4%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 264 | 79.8% | 61 min | 0.76% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines | 1,135 | 78.4% | 65 min | 3.35% | B− |
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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 264 flights.
- 5am–8am2 flights—
- 8am–11am6 flights—
- 11am–2pm5 flights—
- 2pm–5pm104 flights77.7%
- 5pm–8pm33 flights87.5%
- 8pm–5am114 flights78.9%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 87.5% on time. The full set of windows spans 10 points.
Across the year
American on CLT to DAB through the year
- Oct–Dec 202569 flights69.1%
- Jan–Mar 2026102 flights83.2%
- Apr–Jun 202693 flights83.9%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 79.8% on time across 264 flights.
American on CLT to DAB did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 69.1%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 88 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 90.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 60.5%, a spread of 30 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CLT to DAB runs when it is late
American on CLT to DAB often beats the schedule: 83 of 262 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 53 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early83 flights31.7%
- Within 15 min126 flights48.1%
- 15–29 min late19 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late17 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 262 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 59 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CLT to DAB
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 February 2026, 6 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 February 2026 | 6 hours 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 November 2025 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 December 2025 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 2 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 3,249 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 39%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,249 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 30 to one. The split is drawn from 3,249 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,274 of the 3,249 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.76%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 416 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 83.5% on time across 263 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 264 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 DAB
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 264 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 79.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 262 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to DAB, every carrier
- American on DAB to CLT, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on CLT to DAB78.4%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.