Carrier route record
YXLGA→CLT
Republic Airways · New York to Charlotte
- Flights
- 965
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on LGA to CLT carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.9% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 965 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Republic on LGA to CLT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
81.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 927 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.94%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
77.2%
Every carrier on LGA to CLT, 4,336 flights
These figures cover 965 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 LGA to CLT
Republic flew 965 of the 4,336 flights on LGA to CLT, about 22% of it. Its 81.2% on time is 4 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 Republic at 81.2% to Frontier at 60.1%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways (this page) | 965 | 81.2% | 69 min | 3.94% | B− |
| American Airlines | 2,804 | 78.0% | 107 min | 3.82% | B− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 332 | 70.6% | 74 min | 5.72% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 235 | 60.1% | 75 min | 2.98% | D |
Departure window
When Republic runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am57 flights94.3%
- 8am–11am378 flights83.7%
- 11am–2pm91 flights78.4%
- 2pm–5pm177 flights84.3%
- 5pm–8pm161 flights70.7%
- 8pm–5am101 flights77.9%
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 94.3% of the time, against 70.7% for the evening window. That is 24 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 378 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on LGA to CLT through the year
December is the weak month at 73.7% on time, against 93.5% in August. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. October was the busiest month here, with 112 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.8% on time and Thursday the weakest at 77.0%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 12,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 30%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 12,057 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 94.3% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.94%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
6.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 544 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 runs 81.4% on time across 964 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 965 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 LGA to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.94% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 927 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to CLT, every carrier
- Republic on CLT to LGA, the return leg
- American Airlines on LGA to CLT78.0%
- Spirit Airlines on LGA to CLT70.6%
- Frontier Airlines on LGA to CLT60.1%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.