Carrier route record
AACMH→CLT
American Airlines · Columbus to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,263
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 62%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on CMH to CLT earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 1,263 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's CMH to CLT record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 94 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,237 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.98%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.2%
Every carrier on CMH to CLT, 2,042 flights
These figures cover 1,263 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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
American against every carrier on CMH to CLT
American flew 1,263 of the 2,042 flights on CMH to CLT, most of the route. Its 86.7% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 84.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 91.4% to PSA at 79.5%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 35 | 91.4% | 120 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,263 | 86.7% | 96 min | 1.98% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 80.0% | 50 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines | 739 | 79.5% | 77 min | 1.62% | B |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am529 flights90.5%
- 8am–11am338 flights85.4%
- 11am–2pm212 flights83.0%
- 2pm–5pm64 flights81.0%
- 5pm–8pm88 flights88.1%
- 8pm–5am32 flights71.9%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.5% of the time, against 71.9% for the overnight window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 529 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CMH to CLT through the year
August is the worst month at 78.8% on time, 17 points below September, the best at 95.5%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 133 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 92.3% on time and Monday the weakest at 81.7%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CMH to CLT runs when it is late
American on CMH to CLT often beats the schedule: 616 of 1,237 completed flights, 50%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 164 late arrivals split 55 under half an hour, 51 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 58 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early616 flights49.8%
- Within 15 min457 flights36.9%
- 15–29 min late55 flights4.4%
- 30–59 min late51 flights4.1%
- 1–2 hours late32 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late26 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,237 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
22 of 148 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 38 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CMH to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 August 2026, 28 hours 1 minute behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2026 | 28 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 17 March 2026 | 14 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 July 2026 | 13 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 June 2026 | 11 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 August 2026 | 6 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 8,998 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 15,803 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.5% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.98% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.08%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 347 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.2% on time across 1,265 flights, 13 points below 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 13 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,263 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.
What to do with this
Booking American on CMH to CLT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 95.5% on time and August 78.8%, a swing of 17 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,237 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CMH to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to CMH, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on CMH to CLT79.5%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.