Carrier route record

OOCLT→LIT

SkyWest Airlines · Charlotte to Little Rock

Flights: 141
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 11%
Carriers: 4

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

SkyWest on CLT to LIT sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 2.3 hours behind schedule. That rests on 141 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, PSA Airlines, flew 427 at 81.8% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on CLT to LIT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

74.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 136 completed flights

Avg delay

136 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.84%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

80.5%

Every carrier on CLT to LIT, 1,263 flights

These figures cover 141 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on CLT to LIT

SkyWest flew 141 of the 1,263 flights on CLT to LIT, about 11% of it. Its 74.3% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.4% to SkyWest at 74.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: about a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on CLT to LIT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	41	85.4%	32 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines	427	81.8%	62 min	4.68%	B−
Envoy Air	654	80.7%	62 min	1.22%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	141	74.3%	136 min	2.84%	C

PSA Airlines cancels 4.7% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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Departure window

When SkyWest 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 141 flights.

5am–8am108 flights72.8%
8am–11am33 flights78.8%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 78.8% on time for the 8am–11am window against 72.8% for 5am–8am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 108 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on CLT to LIT through the year

Jan–Mar 202648 flights75.0%
Apr–Jun 202641 flights77.5%
Jul–Sep 202652 flights71.2%

Scale runs 65% to 85%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 74.3% on time across 141 flights.

Quarter by quarter SkyWest on CLT to LIT held fairly steady: 75.0% in Jan–Mar 2026, 77.5% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 71.2% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Arrival by arrival

How late SkyWest on CLT to LIT runs when it is late

When SkyWest on CLT to LIT is late it tends to be very late: 22 of its 35 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 15 were two hours or more.

15+ min early28 flights20.6%
Within 15 min73 flights53.7%
15–29 min late4 flights2.9%
30–59 min late9 flights6.6%
1–2 hours late7 flights5.1%
2+ hours late15 flights11.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 136 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 29 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 8 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 LIT.

The worst days

Worst days for SkyWest on CLT to LIT

The latest arrival of the period was on 17 March 2026, 7 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of SkyWest on CLT to LIT in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
17 March 2026	7 hours 7 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
5 March 2026	5 hours 55 minutes	Extreme weather
3 August 2026	5 hours 42 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
15 July 2026	5 hours 39 minutes	Carrier
16 July 2026	5 hours 13 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 4,746 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
52%
Carrier
34%
Extreme weather
12%
National Airspace System
2%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,746 reported delay minutes.

52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,746 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.

Cancellations run at 2.84%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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

16.2% 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 640 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 75.9% on time across 141 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. 141 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 SkyWest on CLT to LIT

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.84% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.3 hours; 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. 136 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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