Route reliability record
CLT→VPS
Charlotte to Valparaiso
- Flights
- 1,206
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Distance
- 460 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,206 CLT to VPS flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly CLT to VPS: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 85.1% of the time and Wednesday flights 82.7%, against 76.6% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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
76.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,177 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.99%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
American
76.2% on time across 865 flights
These figures cover 1,206 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% 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 VPS
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 | 341 | 77.7% | 70 min | 4.40% | B− |
| American Airlines | 865 | 76.2% | 66 min | 1.04% | B |
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.
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 4 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 | 82.2% | 83.3% | 1.27% | 2pm–5pm, Thu | — |
| 2. CLT → ECPCharlotte to Panama City | PSA Airlines | 79.3% | 80.4% | 1.32% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
| 3. CLT → VPSCharlotte to Valparaiso | American Airlines | 75.4% | 76.2% | 1.04% | 11am–2pm, Sat | AA 2909 15:08 |
| 4. CLT → PNSCharlotte to Pensacola | PSA Airlines | 72.1% | 73.7% | 2.18% | 11am–2pm, Wed | OH 5617 20:15 |
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 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–11am110 flights78.5%
- 11am–2pm254 flights85.1%
- 2pm–5pm407 flights76.1%
- 5pm–8pm106 flights72.1%
- 8pm–5am329 flights71.6%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 85.1% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 71.6%. 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 407 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 22 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 63.3% on time, 22 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. July was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.5%. 13 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 18,000 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.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
55% 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 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 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 18,449 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.99% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.41%.
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. 9.0% 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 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 82.0% 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 June 63.3%, a swing of 22 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,177 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 23.4% of the 1,206 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is CLT to VPS compared with the rest of the country?
76.6% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.6%, a difference of about a point against it. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on CLT to VPS?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 85.1% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 71.6%, 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 June delays on CLT to VPS?
June is the weakest month at 63.3% on time, compared with 85.6% in April. Across the year that is 22 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
- PSA Airlines on CLT to VPS77.7%
- American Airlines on CLT to VPS76.2%
- CLT to MCO, a related route70.6%
- ATL to VPS, a related route84.7%
- CLT to ATL, a related route83.3%
- PSA Airlines on-time record77.7%
- American Airlines on-time record76.2%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.