Route reliability record
DAB→CLT
Daytona Beach to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,398
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 416 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,398 DAB to CLT flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Best time to fly DAB to CLT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.2% of the time and Wednesday flights 87.9%, against 83.7% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,357 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.93%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
83.8% on time across 1,135 flights
These figures cover 1,398 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
Which airline is most reliable on DAB to CLT
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 Airlines | 1,135 | 83.8% | 88 min | 3.44% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 263 | 83.5% | 131 min | 0.76% | B+ |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Daytona Beach to Charlotte
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. DAB → CLTDaytona Beach to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 80.9% | 83.8% | 3.44% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. MCO → CLTOrlando to Charlotte | American Airlines | 78.0% | 79.3% | 1.68% | 5am–8am, Wed | AA 1896 05:00 |
| 3. MCO → CLTOrlando to Charlotte | Frontier Airlines | 77.5% | 78.5% | 1.33% | 5am–8am, Wed | F9 1446 09:38 |
| 4. MCO → CLTOrlando to Charlotte | Spirit Airlines | 68.6% | 72.5% | 5.41% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
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 32 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am368 flights92.2%
- 8am–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm540 flights85.3%
- 2pm–5pm207 flights81.5%
- 5pm–8pm203 flights75.0%
- 8pm–5am78 flights60.3%
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.3% on time, against 92.2% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 540 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DAB to CLT 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 DAB to CLT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 92.2% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 60.3%, a wide gap of 31.9 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am92.2%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm85.3%
- 2–5pm81.5%
- 5–8pm75.0%
- 8pm–5am60.3%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 18 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 73.5% on time, 18 points below September, the best at 91.3%. 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. September was the busiest month here, with 127 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 79.2%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 21,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 13%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 21,352 reported delay minutes.
49% 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 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.93%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
7.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 416 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 78.7% on time across 1,399 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,398 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 CLT after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.93% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,357 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DAB to CLT questions
How often is DAB to CLT delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 16.3% of the 1,398 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is DAB to CLT compared with the rest of the country?
83.7% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 6 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DAB to CLT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 92.2% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 60.3%, 32 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 DAB to CLT?
July is the weakest month at 73.5% on time, compared with 91.3% in September. Across the year that is 18 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
- CLT to DAB — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on DAB to CLT83.8%
- American Airlines on DAB to CLT83.5%
- DAB to ATL, a related route88.3%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- ORD to CLT, a related route73.7%
- PSA Airlines on-time record83.8%
- American Airlines on-time record83.5%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DAB to CLT and CLT to DAB 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.