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Carrier route record

YXCLT→JFK

Republic Airways · Charlotte to New York

Flights
139
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route
7%
Carriers
2
BGRADE

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.

Republic on CLT to JFK lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That rests on 139 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Republic's CLT to JFK record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

Key figures

On time

83.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 134 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.16%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

71.5%

Every carrier on CLT to JFK, 2,002 flights

These figures cover 139 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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

Republic against every carrier on CLT to JFK

Republic flew 139 of the 2,002 flights on CLT to JFK, about 7% of it. Its 83.6% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 71.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 83.6% to American at 70.5%.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on CLT to JFK
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample13983.6%53 min2.16%B
American Airlines1,86370.5%77 min2.95%C

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Departure window

When Republic 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 139 flights.

  • 5am–8am—
  • 8am–11am—
  • 11am–2pm101 flights85.7%
  • 2pm–5pm31 flights80.0%
  • 5pm–8pm7 flights—
  • 8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 85.7% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 80.0%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 101 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Republic on CLT to JFK through the year

  • Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
  • Oct–Dec 202578 flights84.0%
  • Apr–Jun 202631 flights80.0%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 83.6% on time across 139 flights.

Split by quarter, Republic on CLT to JFK logged 30 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 78 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 31 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 83.6% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late Republic on CLT to JFK runs when it is late

Republic on CLT to JFK often beats the schedule: 36 of 134 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 22 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.

  • 15+ min early36 flights26.9%
  • Within 15 min76 flights56.7%
  • 15–29 min late10 flights7.5%
  • 30–59 min late5 flights3.7%
  • 1–2 hours late5 flights3.7%
  • 2+ hours late2 flights1.5%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 134 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 24 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 11 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 9 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 Republic on CLT to JFK

The latest arrival of the period was on 13 October 2025, 2 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across October, September, November and May, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of Republic on CLT to JFK in the period
DateArrived late byLargest filed cause
13 October 20252 hours 43 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
4 September 20252 hours 38 minutesNational Airspace System
8 November 20251 hour 59 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
23 September 20251 hour 33 minutesCarrier
24 May 20261 hour 33 minutesCarrier

Delay causes

Why Republic 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 1,171 reported delay minutes.

  • National Airspace System
    42%
  • Late-arriving aircraft
    34%
  • Carrier
    24%

34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,171 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 34 to one. The split is drawn from 1,171 reported delay minutes.

42% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 486 minutes out of 1,171, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations sit at 2.16% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.44%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.2% 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 roughly 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

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 87.7% on time across 139 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. 139 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 Republic on CLT to JFK

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 139 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 83.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 134 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.