Carrier route record
AACLT→JFK
American Airlines · Charlotte to New York
- Flights
- 1,863
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 93%
- 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 JFK sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,863 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on CLT to JFK runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 68 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,803 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.95%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.5%
Every carrier on CLT to JFK, 2,002 flights
These figures cover 1,863 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.0% 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 JFK
American flew 1,863 of the 2,002 flights on CLT to JFK, most of the route. Its 70.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 71.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 83.6% to American at 70.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 139 | 83.6% | 53 min | 2.16% | B |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,863 | 70.5% | 77 min | 2.95% | C |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on CLT to JFK
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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 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am492 flights86.3%
- 11am–2pm400 flights70.4%
- 2pm–5pm224 flights69.4%
- 5pm–8pm428 flights60.4%
- 8pm–5am319 flights60.1%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.1% on time, against 86.3% for the 8am–11am 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 492 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CLT to JFK through the year
December is the weak month at 62.6% on time, against 79.3% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. October was the busiest month here, with 187 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 79.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.3%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CLT to JFK runs when it is late
American on CLT to JFK often beats the schedule: 460 of 1,803 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 531 late arrivals split 153 under half an hour, 161 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 217 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early460 flights25.5%
- Within 15 min812 flights45.0%
- 15–29 min late153 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late161 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late124 flights6.9%
- 2+ hours late93 flights5.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,803 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
76 of 491 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 116 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at JFK.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CLT to JFK
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 January 2026, 13 hours 33 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 January 2026 | 13 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 August 2026 | 12 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 July 2026 | 12 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 July 2026 | 10 hours 11 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 June 2026 | 9 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 41,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 23%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 41,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 41,082 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 86.3% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.95%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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 costs
12.0% 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 542 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 79.7% on time across 1,859 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,863 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 JFK
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.95% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,803 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to JFK, every carrier
- American on JFK to CLT, the return leg
- Republic Airways on CLT to JFK83.6%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.