Carrier route record
AACLT→FLL
American Airlines · Charlotte to Fort Lauderdale
- Flights
- 2,069
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 68%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on CLT to FLL lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 2,069 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on CLT to FLL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,030 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.79%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.7%
Every carrier on CLT to FLL, 3,060 flights
These figures cover 2,069 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% 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 FLL
American flew 2,069 of the 3,060 flights on CLT to FLL, most of the route. Its 77.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 79.7% to Frontier at 62.4%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 160 | 79.7% | 79 min | 3.75% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 2,069 | 77.1% | 61 min | 1.79% | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 607 | 74.7% | 63 min | 5.60% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 224 | 62.4% | 69 min | 4.46% | D− |
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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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am227 flights88.8%
- 8am–11am344 flights91.0%
- 11am–2pm447 flights75.5%
- 2pm–5pm342 flights70.8%
- 5pm–8pm181 flights76.8%
- 8pm–5am528 flights68.7%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.0% of the time, against 68.7% for the overnight window. That is 22 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 528 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CLT to FLL through the year
July is the worst month at 61.7% on time, 26 points below January, the best at 87.7%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 205 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.8%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CLT to FLL runs when it is late
American on CLT to FLL often beats the schedule: 552 of 2,030 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 464 late arrivals split 149 under half an hour, 150 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 165 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early552 flights27.2%
- Within 15 min1,014 flights50.0%
- 15–29 min late149 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late150 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late106 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late59 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,030 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
116 of 530 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 50 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CLT to FLL
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 January 2026, 4 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across January, July, June and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 January 2026 | 4 hours 30 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 July 2026 | 4 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 July 2026 | 4 hours 11 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 June 2026 | 4 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 August 2026 | 3 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 28,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 28,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 28,083 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 91.0% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.79% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.10%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.1% 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.
The 632 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.7% on time across 2,068 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,069 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.
What to do with this
Booking American on CLT to FLL
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. January runs 87.7% on time and July 61.7%, a swing of 26 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,030 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to FLL, every carrier
- American on FLL to CLT, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on CLT to FLL79.7%
- Spirit Airlines on CLT to FLL74.7%
- Frontier Airlines on CLT to FLL62.4%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) 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.