Carrier route record
AACLT→VPS
American Airlines · Charlotte to Valparaiso
- Flights
- 826
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 68%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on CLT to VPS 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 about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 826 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on CLT to VPS from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 813 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.09%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.0%
Every carrier on CLT to VPS, 1,206 flights
These figures cover 826 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on CLT to VPS
American flew 826 of the 1,206 flights on CLT to VPS, most of the route. Its 74.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 74.4% to PSA at 72.9%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page) | 826 | 74.4% | 65 min | 1.09% | C |
| PSA Airlines | 380 | 72.9% | 77 min | 5.00% | C− |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on CLT to VPS
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 826 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am56 flights71.4%
- 11am–2pm179 flights78.7%
- 2pm–5pm279 flights72.7%
- 5pm–8pm45 flights71.1%
- 8pm–5am267 flights74.5%
Scale runs 65% 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 78.7% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 71.1%. 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 279 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CLT to VPS through the year
July is the worst month at 55.2% on time, 30 points below November, the best at 84.9%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 91 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 69.2%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CLT to VPS runs when it is late
The 208 late arrivals split 71 under half an hour, 63 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 74 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early203 flights25.0%
- Within 15 min402 flights49.4%
- 15–29 min late71 flights8.7%
- 30–59 min late63 flights7.7%
- 1–2 hours late50 flights6.2%
- 2+ hours late24 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 813 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
29 of 205 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 32 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CLT to VPS
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 August 2026, 13 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2026 | 13 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 July 2026 | 8 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 May 2026 | 7 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 June 2026 | 4 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 March 2026 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 13,589 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.09% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.48%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.1% 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 81.1% on time across 826 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 826 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 VPS
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 826 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 74.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 813 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.