Carrier route record
AACLT→ILM
American Airlines · Charlotte to Wilmington
- Flights
- 1,484
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 81%
- 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 ILM lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 1,484 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on CLT to ILM from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,454 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.95%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.2%
Every carrier on CLT to ILM, 1,828 flights
These figures cover 1,484 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% 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 ILM
American flew 1,484 of the 1,828 flights on CLT to ILM, most of the route. Its 76.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 79.7% to Envoy at 0.0%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 343 | 79.7% | 73 min | 2.33% | B |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,484 | 76.6% | 72 min | 1.95% | B |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 1 | 0.0% | 75 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am111 flights86.4%
- 8am–11am101 flights87.0%
- 11am–2pm299 flights86.1%
- 2pm–5pm102 flights72.4%
- 5pm–8pm321 flights76.6%
- 8pm–5am550 flights68.3%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.0% of the time, against 68.3% for the overnight window. That is 19 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 550 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CLT to ILM through the year
August is the worst month at 61.2% on time, 24 points below April, the best at 85.0%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 167 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.2%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CLT to ILM runs when it is late
The 340 late arrivals split 119 under half an hour, 94 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 127 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early343 flights23.6%
- Within 15 min771 flights53.0%
- 15–29 min late119 flights8.2%
- 30–59 min late94 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late88 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late39 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,454 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
66 of 380 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. Only 26 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CLT to ILM
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 February 2026, 10 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across February, August, July, June and May, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 February 2026 | 10 hours 28 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 1 August 2026 | 10 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 July 2026 | 9 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 8 hours 42 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 May 2026 | 8 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 25,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 11%Extreme weather
- 5%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 25,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 24,548 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 87.0% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.95% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.07%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.7% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 185 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 87.7% on time across 1,484 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,484 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 ILM
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 85.0% on time and August 61.2%, a swing of 24 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,454 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to ILM, every carrier
- American on ILM to CLT, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on CLT to ILM79.7%
- 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.