Route reliability record
CLT→SGF
Charlotte to Springfield
- Flights
- 1,176
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 708 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 1,176 CLT to SGF flights, of which PSA Airlines flew 530 at 82.4% on time.
Best time to fly CLT to SGF: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Monday. Flights in that window arrived on time 89.7% of the time and Monday flights 90.1%, against 81.6% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,147 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.96%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
82.4% on time across 530 flights
These figures cover 1,176 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on CLT to SGF
The two carriers here are closely matched: 2 points 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 530 | 82.4% | 58 min | 2.64% | B |
| Envoy Air | 646 | 80.9% | 57 min | 1.39% | B |
No carrier stands out. PSA tops the table at 82.4%, 2 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Charlotte to Springfield
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 → SGFCharlotte to Springfield | PSA Airlines | 80.2% | 82.4% | 2.64% | 8am–11am, Mon | — |
| 2. CLT → SGFCharlotte to Springfield | Envoy Air | 79.8% | 80.9% | 1.39% | 8am–11am, Mon | — |
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 19 points, against 2 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am346 flights85.4%
- 11am–2pm196 flights89.7%
- 2pm–5pm273 flights80.5%
- 5pm–8pm136 flights80.0%
- 8pm–5am225 flights71.0%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 89.7% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 71.0%. 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 346 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter CLT to SGF 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 SGF, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 89.7% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 71.0%, a wide gap of 18.7 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am85.4%
- 11am–2pm89.7%
- 2–5pm80.5%
- 5–8pm80.0%
- 8pm–5am71.0%
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 14 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.
June is the worst month at 75.7% on time, 14 points below January, the best at 89.3%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 114 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 90.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 74.8%, a spread of 15 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,112 reported delay minutes.
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations sit at 1.96% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.51%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
5.9% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 708 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 86.6% on time across 1,176 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,176 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 SGF 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 89.3% on time and June 75.7%, a swing of 14 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,147 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to SGF questions
How often is CLT to SGF delayed?
Roughly 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 18.4% of the 1,176 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on CLT to SGF?
PSA Airlines leads at 82.4% on time across 530 flights. Envoy Air is at the other end on 80.9%, a gap of 2 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 SGF?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 89.7% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 71.0%, 19 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 June delays on CLT to SGF?
June is the weakest month at 75.7% on time, compared with 89.3% in January. Across the year that is 14 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
- SGF to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on CLT to SGF82.4%
- Envoy Air on CLT to SGF80.9%
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- DFW to SGF, a related route82.3%
- CLT to ORD, a related route72.4%
- PSA Airlines on-time record82.4%
- Envoy Air on-time record80.9%
- 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 SGF and SGF 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.