Carrier route record

YXJFK→CLT

Republic Airways · New York to Charlotte

Flights: 195
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 10%
Carriers: 2

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 195 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Republic's JFK to CLT record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 105 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 194 completed flights

Avg delay

88 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.51%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.1%

Every carrier on JFK to CLT, 2,028 flights

These figures cover 195 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

Republic against every carrier on JFK to CLT

Republic flew 195 of the 2,028 flights on JFK to CLT, about 10% of it. Its 88.1% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 88.1% to American at 80.3%.

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 JFK to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	195	88.1%	88 min	0.51%	A+
American Airlines	1,833	80.3%	101 min	2.84%	B

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 195 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 88.1% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Republic on JFK to CLT through the year

Jul–Sep 202586 flights88.4%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights85.7%
Apr–Jun 202631 flights93.5%

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 88.1% on time across 195 flights.

Quarter by quarter Republic on JFK to CLT held fairly steady: 88.4% 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.

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 61% of the 2,023 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
61%
National Airspace System
20%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, 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 1,237 of the 2,023 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,023 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.51%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.9% on time across 195 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 195 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 Republic on JFK to CLT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 195 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 88.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 194 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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