Route reliability record
CLT→VPS
Charlotte to Valparaiso
- Flights
- 1,206
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 460 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,206 CLT to VPS flights, of which American Airlines flew 826 at 74.4% on time.
Best time to fly CLT to VPS: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 80.5% of the time and Wednesday flights 82.3%, against 74.0% 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
74.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,171 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.32%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
74.4% on time across 826 flights
These figures cover 1,206 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.2% 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 VPS
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 826 | 74.4% | 65 min | 1.09% | C |
| PSA Airlines | 380 | 72.9% | 77 min | 5.00% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 5.0% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on CLT to VPS
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 Valparaiso
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. 3 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. CLT → PNSCharlotte to Pensacola | American Airlines | 78.6% | 79.6% | 1.21% | 5pm–8pm, Wed | — |
| 2. CLT → ECPCharlotte to Panama City | PSA Airlines | 74.0% | 75.0% | 1.35% | 8am–11am, Wed (route) | — |
| 3. CLT → VPSCharlotte to Valparaiso | American Airlines | 73.6% | 74.4% | 1.09% | 11am–2pm, Wed | AA 2909 15:18 |
| 4. CLT → PNSCharlotte to Pensacola | PSA Airlines | 70.2% | 71.9% | 2.42% | 11am–2pm, Wed | OH 5617 20:15 |
| 5. CLT → VPSCharlotte to Valparaiso | PSA Airlines | 69.3% | 72.9% | 5.00% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
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 14 points, against 2 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am92 flights79.8%
- 11am–2pm267 flights80.5%
- 2pm–5pm385 flights72.3%
- 5pm–8pm154 flights66.2%
- 8pm–5am308 flights72.4%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 80.5% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 66.2%. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 385 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter CLT to VPS 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 VPS, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 80.5% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 66.2%, a wide gap of 14.3 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am79.8%
- 11am–2pm80.5%
- 2–5pm72.3%
- 5–8pm66.2%
- 8pm–5am72.4%
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 55.7% on time, 30 points below April, the best at 85.6%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.2%, a spread of 17 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 21,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 21,072 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.32% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.58%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
10.2% 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 460 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.6% on time across 1,206 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 1,206 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 VPS 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. April runs 85.6% on time and July 55.7%, a swing of 30 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,171 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLT to VPS questions
How often is CLT to VPS 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 26.0% of the 1,206 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 VPS?
American Airlines leads at 74.4% on time across 826 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 72.9%, 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 VPS?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 80.5% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 66.2%, 14 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 VPS?
July is the weakest month at 55.7% on time, compared with 85.6% 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
- VPS to CLT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- American Airlines on CLT to VPS74.4%
- PSA Airlines on CLT to VPS72.9%
- CLT to MCO, a related route71.6%
- ATL to VPS, a related route83.8%
- CLT to ORD, a related route72.4%
- American Airlines on-time record74.4%
- PSA Airlines on-time record72.9%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Direction matters. CLT to VPS and VPS 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.