Route reliability record
CLT→OMA
Charlotte to Omaha
- Flights
- 1,003
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 913 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B, about a point 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 1,003 CLT to OMA flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly CLT to OMA: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 86.2% of the time and Wednesday flights 90.6%, against 78.3% 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
78.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 983 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.60%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
79.1% on time across 965 flights
These figures cover 1,003 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 OMA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 965 | 79.1% | 69 min | 1.66% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 38 | 59.5% | 84 min | 0.00% | D+ |
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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–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm323 flights86.2%
- 2pm–5pm321 flights75.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am357 flights73.9%
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 86.2% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 73.9%. 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 357 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter CLT to OMA 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 OMA, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 86.2% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 73.9%, a wide gap of 12.3 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm86.2%
- 2–5pm75.2%
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am73.9%
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 30 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 59.8% on time, 30 points below April, the best at 89.7%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.0%, a spread of 22 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 14,861 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,677 of the 15,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.60% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.40%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
9.1% 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 913 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.4% on time across 1,003 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,003 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,003 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 78.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 983 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to OMA questions
How often is CLT to OMA 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 21.7% of the 1,003 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 OMA compared with the rest of the country?
78.3% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of about 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 OMA?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 86.2% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 73.9%, 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 OMA?
July is the weakest month at 59.8% on time, compared with 89.7% in April. Across the year that is 30 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
- OMA to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- DEN to OMA, a related route76.9%
- CLT to ORD, a related route72.4%
- American Airlines on-time record79.1%
- PSA Airlines on-time record59.5%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Direction matters. CLT to OMA and OMA 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.