Carrier route record
AAFLL→CLT
American Airlines · Fort Lauderdale to Charlotte
- Flights
- 2,068
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 68%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on FLL to CLT lands a B, 5 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 2,068 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's FLL to CLT record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 54 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,025 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.89%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.2%
Every carrier on FLL to CLT, 3,060 flights
These figures cover 2,068 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 FLL to CLT
American flew 2,068 of the 3,060 flights on FLL to CLT, most of the route. Its 82.7% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 82.7% to JetBlue at 58.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page) | 2,068 | 82.7% | 94 min | 1.89% | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 606 | 68.5% | 68 min | 4.79% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 224 | 61.7% | 78 min | 6.70% | D− |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 162 | 58.2% | 69 min | 1.85% | D |
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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 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am426 flights95.2%
- 8am–11am497 flights89.7%
- 11am–2pm298 flights83.7%
- 2pm–5pm503 flights74.1%
- 5pm–8pm344 flights68.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 95.2% of the time, against 68.9% for the evening window. That is 26 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 503 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on FLL to CLT through the year
July is the worst month at 69.8% on time, 21 points below October, the best at 90.5%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 206 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.3%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on FLL to CLT runs when it is late
American on FLL to CLT often beats the schedule: 776 of 2,025 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 350 late arrivals split 105 under half an hour, 97 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 148 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early776 flights38.3%
- Within 15 min899 flights44.4%
- 15–29 min late105 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late97 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late80 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late68 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,025 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
99 of 403 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 46 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on FLL to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 November 2025, 28 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2025 | 28 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 April 2026 | 19 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 September 2025 | 12 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 May 2026 | 12 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 October 2025 | 12 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 33,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 39%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 33,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 32,969 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 13,000 of the 33,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.89% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.19%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.3% 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.
The 632 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 77.1% on time across 2,069 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,068 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 FLL to CLT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. October runs 90.5% on time and July 69.8%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,025 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FLL to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to FLL, the return leg
- Spirit Airlines on FLL to CLT68.5%
- Frontier Airlines on FLL to CLT61.7%
- JetBlue Airways on FLL to CLT58.2%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- 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.