Route reliability record
CLT→MHT
Charlotte to Manchester
- Flights
- 944
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 738 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 944 CLT to MHT flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Best time to fly CLT to MHT: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 83.7% of the time and Wednesday flights 81.9%, against 77.4% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 914 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.07%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
77.4% on time across 944 flights
These figures cover 944 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on CLT to MHT
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 944 | 77.4% | 78 min | 3.07% | B− |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Charlotte to Manchester
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 2 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. CLT → BOSCharlotte to Boston | Republic Airways | 78.3% | 80.8% | 3.13% | 5am–8am, Sat | YX 5648 06:00 |
| 2. CLT → MHTCharlotte to Manchester | PSA Airlines | 75.0% | 77.4% | 3.07% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
| 3. CLT → BOSCharlotte to Boston | American Airlines | 72.5% | 74.1% | 2.13% | 5am–8am, Wed | AA 1843 22:29 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am4 flights—
- 8am–11am186 flights83.7%
- 11am–2pm265 flights76.2%
- 2pm–5pm129 flights77.3%
- 5pm–8pm35 flights66.7%
- 8pm–5am325 flights75.7%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 83.7% of the time, against 66.7% for the evening window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 325 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter CLT to MHT by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On CLT to MHT, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 83.7% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 66.7%, a wide gap of 17.0 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am83.7%
- 11am–2pm76.2%
- 2–5pm77.3%
- 5–8pm66.7%
- 8pm–5am75.7%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 31 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
February is the weak month at 65.3% on time, against 96.6% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. August was the busiest month here, with 94 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 81.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.9%, a spread of 11 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 16,225 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 83.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.07%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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 actually costs
8.9% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 738 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 78.2% on time across 944 flights, within about 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. 944 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.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.07% 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. 914 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to MHT questions
How often is CLT to MHT delayed?
Roughly one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 22.6% of the 944 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is CLT to MHT compared with the rest of the country?
77.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of half a point in its favour. That is worth a B− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on CLT to MHT?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 83.7% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 66.7%, 17 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are February delays on CLT to MHT?
February is the weakest month at 65.3% on time, compared with 96.6% in September. Across the year that is 31 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- MHT to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- BWI to MHT, a related route84.2%
- CLT to ORD, a related route72.4%
- PSA Airlines on-time record77.4%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. CLT to MHT and MHT to CLT are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.