Carrier route record
YXLGA→CLT
Republic Airways · New York to Charlotte
- Flights
- 924
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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: 5.1% 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 B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 924 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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
77.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 877 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.09%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.8%
Every carrier on LGA to CLT, 4,197 flights
These figures cover 924 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on LGA to CLT
Republic flew 924 of the 4,197 flights on LGA to CLT, about 22% of it. Its 77.7% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 77.7% to Frontier at 58.5%. 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) | 924 | 77.7% | 68 min | 5.09% | B− |
| American Airlines | 2,769 | 77.4% | 104 min | 3.79% | B− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 262 | 68.7% | 68 min | 7.25% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 242 | 58.5% | 71 min | 7.44% | D− |
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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 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am7 flights—
- 8am–11am325 flights82.6%
- 11am–2pm96 flights79.3%
- 2pm–5pm174 flights76.8%
- 5pm–8pm221 flights68.8%
- 8pm–5am101 flights77.9%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 82.6% of the time, against 68.8% for the evening window. That is 14 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 325 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on LGA to CLT through the year
July is the worst month at 60.0% on time, 33 points below September, the best at 92.6%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 112 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.5% on time and Thursday the weakest at 74.4%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on LGA to CLT runs when it is late
Republic on LGA to CLT often beats the schedule: 386 of 877 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 196 late arrivals split 59 under half an hour, 67 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 70 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early386 flights44.0%
- Within 15 min295 flights33.6%
- 15–29 min late59 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late67 flights7.6%
- 1–2 hours late40 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late30 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 877 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
41 of 181 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 56 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at CLT.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on LGA to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 November 2025, 5 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 November 2025 | 5 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 January 2026 | 5 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 4 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 December 2025 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 31 October 2025 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 13,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 27%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 19 to one. The split is drawn from 13,382 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 82.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 5.09%, 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 costs
8.0% 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 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.
The return leg runs 79.8% on time across 923 flights, within 2 points 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. 924 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 5.09% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 877 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 CLT77.4%
- Spirit Airlines on LGA to CLT68.7%
- Frontier Airlines on LGA to CLT58.5%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.