Route reliability record
CLT→SHV
Charlotte to Shreveport
- Flights
- 746
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Distance
- 764 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 2.5 hours behind schedule. That rests on 746 CLT to SHV flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Best time to fly CLT to SHV: a 2pm–5pm departure, ideally on a Friday. Flights in that window arrived on time 83.1% of the time and Friday flights 76.2%, against 71.4% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so this route runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 62 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 724 completed flights
Avg delay
148 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.82%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
SkyWest
69.5% on time across 606 flights
These figures cover 746 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.7% 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
Which airline is most reliable on CLT to SHV
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 140 | 79.3% | 50 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 606 | 69.5% | 164 min | 3.47% | C− |
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 17 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–11am68 flights82.4%
- 11am–2pm61 flights72.1%
- 2pm–5pm71 flights83.1%
- 5pm–8pm189 flights66.5%
- 8pm–5am357 flights69.3%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 83.1% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 66.5%. 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.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 27 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 56.4% on time, 27 points below September, the best at 83.5%. 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. December was the busiest month here, with 88 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 76.2% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 66.4%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 31,000 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.
- 62%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 19,000 of the 31,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 30,561 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.82%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.7% 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.
The 764 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.4% on time across 746 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 746 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in SHV after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.82% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.5 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 724 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to SHV questions
How often is CLT to SHV delayed?
Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 28.6% of the 746 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about 2.5 hours on average.
How reliable is CLT to SHV compared with the rest of the country?
71.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.6%, a difference of 6 points against it. That is worth a C on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on CLT to SHV?
The 2pm–5pm departure window is the strongest at 83.1% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 66.5%, 17 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 SHV?
June is the weakest month at 56.4% on time, compared with 83.5% in September. Across the year that is 27 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
- SHV to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on CLT to SHV79.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on CLT to SHV69.5%
- CLT to MCO, a related route70.6%
- DFW to SHV, a related route76.0%
- CLT to ATL, a related route83.3%
- PSA Airlines on-time record79.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record69.5%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
Direction matters. CLT to SHV and SHV 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.