Route reliability record
CLT→SAV
Charlotte to Savannah
- Flights
- 2,043
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 213 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 2,043 CLT to SAV flights, of which PSA Airlines flew 1,460 at 75.0% on time.
Best time to fly CLT to SAV: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 88.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 84.2%, against 75.5% 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
75.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,004 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.71%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
75.0% on time across 1,460 flights
These figures cover 2,043 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% 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 SAV
The two carriers here are closely matched: half 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 71 | 93.0% | 32 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 1,460 | 75.0% | 78 min | 2.26% | B |
| American Airlines | 512 | 74.7% | 70 min | 0.39% | C+ |
No carrier stands out. PSA tops the table at 75.0%, half a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Flight by flight
Flights on CLT to SAV
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 Savannah
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. 1 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. CLT → HHHCharlotte to Hilton Head Island | Envoy Air | 84.3% | 85.5% | 1.46% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
| 2. CLT → SAVCharlotte to Savannah | American Airlines | 74.4% | 74.7% | 0.39% | 8pm–5am, Tue | — |
| 3. CLT → SAVCharlotte to Savannah | PSA Airlines | 73.3% | 75.0% | 2.26% | 8am–11am, Wed | OH 5382 20:26 |
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 half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am28 flights—
- 8am–11am269 flights88.6%
- 11am–2pm473 flights81.5%
- 2pm–5pm237 flights71.2%
- 5pm–8pm410 flights68.4%
- 8pm–5am626 flights70.9%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 88.6% of the time, against 68.4% for the evening 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 626 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter CLT to SAV 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 SAV, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 88.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 68.4%, a wide gap of 20.2 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am88.6%
- 11am–2pm81.5%
- 2–5pm71.2%
- 5–8pm68.4%
- 8pm–5am70.9%
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 33 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 53.0% on time, 33 points below November, the best at 85.9%. 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 235 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.6%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 37,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 37,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 36,855 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 88.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.71% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.20%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
10.4% 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 213 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.0% on time across 2,039 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,043 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 SAV 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. November runs 85.9% on time and July 53.0%, a swing of 33 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,004 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to SAV questions
How often is CLT to SAV 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 24.5% of the 2,043 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 SAV?
PSA Airlines leads at 75.0% on time across 1,460 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 74.7%, a gap of half a point. 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 SAV?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 88.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 68.4%, 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 SAV?
July is the weakest month at 53.0% on time, compared with 85.9% in November. Across the year that is 33 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
- SAV to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on CLT to SAV75.0%
- American Airlines on CLT to SAV74.7%
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- ATL to SAV, a related route82.1%
- CLT to ORD, a related route72.4%
- Envoy Air on-time record93.0%
- PSA Airlines on-time record75.0%
- American Airlines on-time record74.7%
- 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 SAV and SAV 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.