Route reliability record
CLT→HPN
Charlotte to White Plains
- Flights
- 1,345
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 564 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,345 CLT to HPN flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Best time to fly CLT to HPN: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 87.4% of the time and Wednesday flights 80.1%, 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 1,286 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.12%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
73.1% on time across 1,345 flights
These figures cover 1,345 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% 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 HPN
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 | 1,345 | 73.1% | 77 min | 3.12% | C− |
Flight by flight
Flights on CLT to HPN
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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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Charlotte to White Plains
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 4 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. CLT → EWRCharlotte to Newark | United Airlines | 80.0% | 82.0% | 2.49% | 11am–2pm, Wed | — |
| 2. CLT → LGACharlotte to New York | Republic Airways | 75.9% | 79.8% | 4.88% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 3. CLT → EWRCharlotte to Newark | Republic Airways | 75.1% | 81.0% | 7.34% | 11am–2pm, Tue | — |
| 4. CLT → HPNCharlotte to White Plains | PSA Airlines | 70.8% | 73.1% | 3.12% | 5am–8am, Wed | OH 5431 07:23 |
| 5. CLT → EWRCharlotte to Newark | American Airlines | 69.0% | 71.5% | 3.50% | 8am–11am, Wed | AA 2794 20:33 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
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 30 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am229 flights87.4%
- 8am–11am72 flights72.7%
- 11am–2pm337 flights79.7%
- 2pm–5pm357 flights69.6%
- 5pm–8pm156 flights57.3%
- 8pm–5am194 flights63.5%
Scale runs 50% to 95%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 57.3% on time, against 87.4% for the 5am–8am 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 357 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter CLT to HPN 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 HPN, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 87.4% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 57.3%, a wide gap of 30.1 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am87.4%
- 8–11am72.7%
- 11am–2pm79.7%
- 2–5pm69.6%
- 5–8pm57.3%
- 8pm–5am63.5%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 27 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 61.8% on time, 27 points below October, the best at 89.0%. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 80.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.1%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 27,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 27,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 26,745 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 87.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.12%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
11.7% 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.
The 564 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 runs 73.9% on time across 1,348 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,345 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 HPN after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.12% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,286 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to HPN questions
How often is CLT to HPN 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 1,345 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is CLT to HPN 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 HPN?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 87.4% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 57.3%, 30 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 HPN?
July is the weakest month at 61.8% on time, compared with 89.0% in October. Across the year that is 27 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
- HPN to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- PBI to HPN, a related route72.7%
- 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 HPN and HPN 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.