Route reliability record
CLT→MYR
Charlotte to Myrtle Beach
- Flights
- 2,220
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 157 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About 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 2,220 CLT to MYR flights, of which PSA Airlines flew 802 at 80.1% on time.
Best time to fly CLT to MYR: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 90.3% of the time and Tuesday flights 83.6%, against 76.6% 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
76.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,173 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.89%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
80.1% on time across 802 flights
These figures cover 2,220 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% 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 MYR
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. PSA Airlines arrives on time 80.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 74.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,366 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 52 | 89.6% | 57 min | 7.69% | A− |
| PSA Airlines | 802 | 80.1% | 64 min | 2.74% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,366 | 74.1% | 75 min | 1.17% | C |
PSA leads American by 6 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Charlotte to Myrtle Beach
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. CLT → MYRCharlotte to Myrtle Beach | PSA Airlines | 77.9% | 80.1% | 2.74% | 5am–8am, Thu | — |
| 2. CLT → MYRCharlotte to Myrtle Beach | American Airlines | 73.2% | 74.1% | 1.17% | 5am–8am, 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 20 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am157 flights90.3%
- 8am–11am340 flights86.1%
- 11am–2pm388 flights80.8%
- 2pm–5pm429 flights70.6%
- 5pm–8pm314 flights71.1%
- 8pm–5am592 flights72.0%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.3% of the time, against 70.6% for the afternoon window. That is 20 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 592 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter CLT to MYR 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 MYR, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 90.3% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 70.6%, a wide gap of 19.7 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am90.3%
- 8–11am86.1%
- 11am–2pm80.8%
- 2–5pm70.6%
- 5–8pm71.1%
- 8pm–5am72.0%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 29 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 56.7% on time, 29 points below January, the best at 85.6%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 232 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.6%, a spread of 13 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 36,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 36,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 36,399 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 13,000 of the 36,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.89% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.23%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
9.4% 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.
At 157 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.1% on time across 2,221 flights, 8 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 8 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,220 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 MYR after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. January runs 85.6% on time and July 56.7%, a swing of 29 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,173 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to MYR questions
How often is CLT to MYR delayed?
About 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 23.4% of the 2,220 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on CLT to MYR?
PSA Airlines leads at 80.1% on time across 802 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 74.1%, a gap of 6 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on CLT to MYR?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 90.3% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 70.6%, 20 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 MYR?
July is the weakest month at 56.7% on time, compared with 85.6% in January. Across the year that is 29 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
- MYR to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on CLT to MYR80.1%
- American Airlines on CLT to MYR74.1%
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- ATL to MYR, a related route82.2%
- CLT to ORD, a related route72.4%
- Envoy Air on-time record89.6%
- PSA Airlines on-time record80.1%
- American Airlines on-time record74.1%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. CLT to MYR and MYR 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.