Route reliability record
HPN→CLT
White Plains to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,348
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 564 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.9% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,348 HPN to CLT flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly HPN to CLT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 87.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 80.9%, against 73.9% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
73.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,277 completed flights
Avg delay
127 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.90%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
73.9% on time across 1,348 flights
These figures cover 1,348 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on HPN 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 | 1,348 | 73.9% | 127 min | 4.90% | C− |
Flight by flight
Flights on HPN to CLT
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly White Plains 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. 5 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. EWR → CLTNewark to Charlotte | Republic Airways | 84.1% | 87.5% | 3.94% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. EWR → CLTNewark to Charlotte | American Airlines | 78.0% | 81.0% | 3.71% | 5am–8am, Wed | AA 1575 08:00 |
| 3. JFK → CLTNew York to Charlotte | American Airlines | 77.2% | 79.7% | 3.17% | 5am–8am, Tue | AA 1444 07:59 |
| 4. LGA → CLTNew York to Charlotte | American Airlines | 74.5% | 77.4% | 3.79% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 5. EWR → CLTNewark to Charlotte | United Airlines | 74.2% | 75.7% | 1.94% | 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 30 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am169 flights87.6%
- 8am–11am446 flights82.2%
- 11am–2pm357 flights71.3%
- 2pm–5pm26 flights—
- 5pm–8pm350 flights57.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 57.8% on time, against 87.6% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 446 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter HPN 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 HPN to CLT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 87.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 57.8%, a wide gap of 29.8 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am87.6%
- 8–11am82.2%
- 11am–2pm71.3%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm57.8%
- 8pm–5am—
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 25 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 63.0% on time, 25 points below October, the best at 88.1%. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 80.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.8%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 42,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 42,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 42,363 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 87.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.90%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
13.4% 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.
The 564 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 runs 73.1% on time across 1,345 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,348 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 4.90% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 hours; 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. 1,277 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
HPN to CLT questions
How often is HPN to CLT delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 26.1% of the 1,348 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about 2.1 hours on average.
How reliable is HPN to CLT compared with the rest of the country?
73.9% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 3 points against it. That is worth a C− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on HPN to CLT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 87.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 57.8%, 30 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 HPN to CLT?
July is the weakest month at 63.0% on time, compared with 88.1% in October. Across the year that is 25 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 HPN — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- HPN to PBI, a related route72.9%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- HPN to ORD, a related route78.1%
- PSA Airlines on-time record73.9%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. HPN to CLT and CLT to HPN 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.