Carrier route record
YXCLT→LGA
Republic Airways · Charlotte to New York
- Flights
- 923
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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: 4.9% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% 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 923 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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
79.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 876 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.88%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.5%
Every carrier on CLT to LGA, 4,193 flights
These figures cover 923 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on CLT to LGA
Republic flew 923 of the 4,193 flights on CLT to LGA, about 22% of it. Its 79.8% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 71.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 79.8% to Frontier at 51.6%. 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) | 923 | 79.8% | 94 min | 4.88% | B− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 261 | 77.0% | 72 min | 4.98% | B− |
| American Airlines | 2,767 | 69.8% | 76 min | 3.79% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 242 | 51.6% | 113 min | 9.09% | F− |
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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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am331 flights87.9%
- 8am–11am24 flights—
- 11am–2pm217 flights77.0%
- 2pm–5pm169 flights80.6%
- 5pm–8pm181 flights65.0%
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.9% of the time, against 65.0% for the evening window. That is 23 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 331 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 84.3% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 76.5%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on CLT to LGA runs when it is late
Republic on CLT to LGA often beats the schedule: 334 of 876 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 177 late arrivals split 41 under half an hour, 52 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 84 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early334 flights38.1%
- Within 15 min365 flights41.7%
- 15–29 min late41 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late52 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late40 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late44 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 876 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 146 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 13 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 44 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 LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on CLT to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 August 2026, 17 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2026 | 17 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 8 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 October 2025 | 6 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 July 2026 | 6 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 August 2026 | 6 hours 27 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 36%National Airspace System
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,617 of the 17,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 16,617 reported delay minutes.
36% 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 5,974 minutes out of 17,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 4.88%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
9.6% 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 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.
The return leg runs 77.7% on time across 924 flights, within 2 points 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. 923 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 4.88% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 876 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 LGA77.0%
- American Airlines on CLT to LGA69.8%
- Frontier Airlines on CLT to LGA51.6%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.