Carrier route record
AADAB→CLT
American Airlines · Daytona Beach to Charlotte
- Flights
- 263
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on DAB to CLT 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 about 2.2 hours on average. That rests on 263 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's DAB to CLT record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 62 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 261 completed flights
Avg delay
131 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.76%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.7%
Every carrier on DAB to CLT, 1,398 flights
These figures cover 263 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% 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 DAB to CLT
American flew 263 of the 1,398 flights on DAB to CLT, about 19% of it. Its 83.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 83.8% to American at 83.5%.
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 Airlines (this page)thin sample | 263 | 83.5% | 131 min | 0.76% | 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 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am148 flights89.8%
- 8am–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm9 flights—
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm103 flights74.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.8% of the time, against 74.5% for the evening window. That is 15 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 148 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DAB to CLT through the year
- Oct–Dec 202569 flights80.9%
- Jan–Mar 2026100 flights82.8%
- Apr–Jun 202694 flights86.2%
Scale runs 70% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 83.5% on time across 263 flights.
Quarter by quarter American on DAB to CLT held fairly steady: 80.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 90.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.6%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DAB to CLT runs when it is late
American on DAB to CLT often beats the schedule: 128 of 261 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When American on DAB to CLT is late it tends to be very late: 24 of its 43 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 11 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early128 flights49.0%
- Within 15 min90 flights34.5%
- 15–29 min late9 flights3.4%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.8%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late11 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 261 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DAB to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 March 2026, 23 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across March, April, February and November, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2026 | 23 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 April 2026 | 11 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 February 2026 | 6 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 March 2026 | 4 hours 16 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 November 2025 | 4 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 60% of the 5,610 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
- 1%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,379 of the 5,610 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,610 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 89.8% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.76%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.2% 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 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 79.8% on time across 264 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 263 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 DAB to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 263 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 83.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 261 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DAB to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to DAB, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DAB to CLT83.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.