Carrier route record

AADAB→CLT

American Airlines · Daytona Beach to Charlotte

Flights: 263
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 2

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.2 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

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 1.81%

Whole route

84.9%

Every carrier on DAB to CLT, 1,399 flights

These figures cover 263 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% 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

American against every carrier on DAB to CLT

American flew 263 of the 1,399 flights on DAB to CLT, about 19% of it. Its 83.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 85.2% 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DAB to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlines	1,136	85.2%	84 min	3.35%	A−
American Airlines (this page)thin sample	263	83.5%	131 min	0.76%	B+

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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

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%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

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%. 15 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 5,610 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.

Carrier
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
Extreme weather
6%
National Airspace System
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. 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 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.2% 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 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.

Where to go next

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.

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