Route reliability record
CLT→MLB
Charlotte to Melbourne
- Flights
- 1,114
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 490 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. 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 rests on 1,114 CLT to MLB flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Best time to fly CLT to MLB: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 86.6% of the time and Tuesday flights 85.5%, against 78.8% 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
78.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,078 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.96%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
78.8% on time across 1,114 flights
These figures cover 1,114 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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 MLB
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 | 1,114 | 78.8% | 72 min | 2.96% | B |
Flight by flight
Flights on CLT to MLB
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Charlotte to Melbourne
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. 3 of the top 4 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. CLT → MLBCharlotte to Melbourne | PSA Airlines | 76.5% | 78.8% | 2.96% | 11am–2pm, Tue | OH 5364 22:35 |
| 2. CLT → MCOCharlotte to Orlando | American Airlines | 70.4% | 71.6% | 1.71% | 8am–11am, Wed | AA 1879 20:15 |
| 3. CLT → MCOCharlotte to Orlando | Frontier Airlines | 70.3% | 73.0% | 3.69% | 11am–2pm, Wed | — |
| 4. CLT → MCOCharlotte to Orlando | Spirit Airlines | 65.4% | 68.9% | 5.12% | 2pm–5pm, Wed | — |
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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am333 flights84.2%
- 11am–2pm82 flights86.6%
- 2pm–5pm346 flights76.3%
- 5pm–8pm1 flights—
- 8pm–5am352 flights74.3%
Scale runs 65% 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 86.6% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 74.3%. 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 352 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter CLT to MLB 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 MLB, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 86.6% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 74.3%, a wide gap of 12.3 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am84.2%
- 11am–2pm86.6%
- 2–5pm76.3%
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am74.3%
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 36 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.
July is the worst month at 56.3% on time, 36 points below September, the best at 92.7%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. January was the busiest month here, with 119 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.5% on time and Saturday the weakest at 67.8%, a spread of 18 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 16,573 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.96%, 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
8.3% 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.
At 490 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 81.2% on time across 1,114 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,114 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in MLB after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.96% 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. 1,078 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to MLB questions
How often is CLT to MLB delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 21.2% of the 1,114 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 MLB compared with the rest of the country?
78.8% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 2 points 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 MLB?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 86.6% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 74.3%, 12 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 July delays on CLT to MLB?
July is the weakest month at 56.3% on time, compared with 92.7% in September. Across the year that is 36 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
- MLB to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- ATL to MLB, a related route83.8%
- CLT to ORD, a related route72.4%
- PSA Airlines on-time record78.8%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. CLT to MLB and MLB 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.