Carrier route record
AAGSP→CLT
American Airlines · Greer to Charlotte
- Flights
- 279
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 18%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on GSP 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 8 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 279 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's GSP to CLT record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 270 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.23%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.3%
Every carrier on GSP to CLT, 1,538 flights
These figures cover 279 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 GSP to CLT
American flew 279 of the 1,538 flights on GSP to CLT, about 18% of it. Its 85.6% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.6% to Envoy at 78.8%. One 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)thin sample | 279 | 85.6% | 89 min | 3.23% | A− |
| PSA Airlines | 1,106 | 82.0% | 129 min | 2.71% | B |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 153 | 78.8% | 54 min | 1.31% | 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 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am135 flights90.2%
- 8am–11am49 flights93.3%
- 11am–2pm69 flights80.3%
- 2pm–5pm22 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am4 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 80.3% on time against 93.3% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 135 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on GSP to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202535 flights94.3%
- Oct–Dec 2025134 flights81.3%
- Jan–Mar 202663 flights81.5%
- Apr–Jun 202643 flights100.0%
- Jul–Sep 20264 flights—
Scale runs 75% to 100%. 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 85.6% on time across 279 flights.
American on GSP to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.3%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 70 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 92.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.8%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on GSP to CLT runs when it is late
American on GSP to CLT often beats the schedule: 84 of 270 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When American on GSP to CLT is late it tends to be very late: 20 of its 39 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 12 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early84 flights31.1%
- Within 15 min147 flights54.4%
- 15–29 min late12 flights4.4%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights3.0%
- 2+ hours late12 flights4.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 270 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 42 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on GSP to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 6 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 6 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 January 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 November 2025 | 3 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 3 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 3,481 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,481 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 3,481 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 93.3% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.23%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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 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 75 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.1% on time across 279 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 279 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 GSP to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.23% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 270 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- GSP to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to GSP, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on GSP to CLT82.0%
- Envoy Air on GSP to CLT78.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.