Carrier route record
AACLT→SAV
American Airlines · Charlotte to Savannah
- Flights
- 596
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 29%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on CLT to SAV sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 596 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on CLT to SAV runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 69 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 593 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.34%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.5%
Every carrier on CLT to SAV, 2,074 flights
These figures cover 596 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on CLT to SAV
American flew 596 of the 2,074 flights on CLT to SAV, about 29% of it. Its 70.7% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 100.0% to American at 70.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 28 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 1,450 | 78.4% | 69 min | 2.07% | B |
| American Airlines (this page) | 596 | 70.7% | 78 min | 0.34% | C+ |
Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 31 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am15 flights—
- 11am–2pm86 flights75.6%
- 2pm–5pm59 flights46.6%
- 5pm–8pm168 flights64.1%
- 8pm–5am268 flights77.9%
Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The overnight block holds up unusually well at 77.9% on time across 268 flights. Red-eyes fly into empty airspace and empty gates, and they are the first rotation of the aircraft's day rather than the last. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 268 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CLT to SAV through the year
July is the worst month at 53.8% on time, 26 points below April, the best at 80.0%. 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. September was the busiest month here, with 104 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 61.5%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 27 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 13,497 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 13.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.3% on time across 596 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 596 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.
What to do with this
Booking American on CLT to SAV
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 596 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 70.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 593 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.