Carrier route record
YXJFK→CLT
Republic Airways · New York to Charlotte
- Flights
- 139
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on JFK to CLT earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 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 139 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's JFK to CLT record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 104 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 138 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.72%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on JFK to CLT, 1,998 flights
These figures cover 139 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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
Republic against every carrier on JFK to CLT
Republic flew 139 of the 1,998 flights on JFK to CLT, about 7% of it. Its 87.7% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 87.7% to American at 79.7%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways (this page)thin sample | 139 | 87.7% | 97 min | 0.72% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 1,859 | 79.7% | 99 min | 3.17% | B− |
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Departure window
When Republic runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 139 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Republic's JFK to CLT record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 87.7% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Republic on JFK to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights85.7%
- Apr–Jun 202631 flights93.5%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 87.7% on time across 139 flights.
Quarter by quarter Republic on JFK to CLT held fairly steady: 86.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.7% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 93.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on JFK to CLT runs when it is late
Republic on JFK to CLT often beats the schedule: 73 of 138 completed flights, 53%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 17 late arrivals split 3 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early73 flights52.9%
- Within 15 min48 flights34.8%
- 15–29 min late3 flights2.2%
- 30–59 min late6 flights4.3%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late3 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 138 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 16 of 138 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on JFK to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 November 2025, 7 hours 42 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 | 7 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 November 2025 | 3 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 September 2025 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 October 2025 | 1 hour 57 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 September 2025 | 1 hour 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 59% of the 1,642 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 976 of the 1,642 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,642 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.72%, 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
5.8% 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 542 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 83.6% on time across 139 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. 139 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 139 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 87.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 138 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- JFK to CLT, every carrier
- Republic on CLT to JFK, the return leg
- American Airlines on JFK to CLT79.7%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
- 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.