Carrier route record
YXCLT→LGA
Republic Airways · Charlotte to New York
- Flights
- 964
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on CLT to LGA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.2% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 964 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Republic on CLT to LGA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
81.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 924 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.15%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
72.1%
Every carrier on CLT to LGA, 4,332 flights
These figures cover 964 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% 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 LGA
Republic flew 964 of the 4,332 flights on CLT to LGA, about 22% of it. Its 81.4% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 81.4% to Frontier at 61.8%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways (this page) | 964 | 81.4% | 81 min | 4.15% | B− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 331 | 79.2% | 72 min | 3.93% | B− |
| American Airlines | 2,802 | 68.9% | 76 min | 3.78% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 235 | 61.8% | 102 min | 4.26% | D− |
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 19 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–8am271 flights88.3%
- 8am–11am74 flights88.6%
- 11am–2pm270 flights78.1%
- 2pm–5pm220 flights81.0%
- 5pm–8pm128 flights69.7%
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 88.6% of the time, against 69.7% for the evening 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 271 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on CLT to LGA through the year
September is the best month on the calendar at 91.4% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. October was the busiest month here, with 112 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.3% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 77.7%. 8 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 43% of the 14,000 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.
- 43%Carrier
- 37%National Airspace System
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 6,027 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 13,862 reported delay minutes.
37% 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 5,150 minutes out of 14,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 4.15%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
8.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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.
The 544 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 runs 81.2% on time across 965 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 964 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 LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.15% 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. 924 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to LGA, every carrier
- Republic on LGA to CLT, the return leg
- Spirit Airlines on CLT to LGA79.2%
- American Airlines on CLT to LGA68.9%
- Frontier Airlines on CLT to LGA61.8%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.