Carrier route record

YXCLT→JFK

Republic Airways · Charlotte to New York

Flights: 195
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 10%
Carriers: 2

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

Republic on CLT to JFK lands a B−, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 195 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Republic on CLT to JFK from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

79.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 184 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.62%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

70.2%

Every carrier on CLT to JFK, 2,032 flights

These figures cover 195 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Republic against every carrier on CLT to JFK

Republic flew 195 of the 2,032 flights on CLT to JFK, about 10% of it. Its 79.9% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 79.9% to American at 69.2%.

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
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	195	79.9%	79 min	4.62%	B−
American Airlines	1,837	69.2%	80 min	2.61%	C

Departure window

When Republic runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm101 flights85.7%
2pm–5pm31 flights80.0%
5pm–8pm63 flights69.6%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 60% 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 5pm–8pm at 69.6%. 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 202586 flights75.9%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights84.0%
Apr–Jun 202631 flights80.0%

Scale runs 65% 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 79.9% on time across 195 flights.

Quarter by quarter Republic on CLT to JFK held fairly steady: 75.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.0% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 80.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 59% of the 2,903 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

National Airspace System
59%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
Carrier
12%
Extreme weather
7%

59% 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 1,715 minutes out of 2,903, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,903 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 4.62%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 88.1% on time across 195 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 195 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: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.62% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 184 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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