Carrier route record
MQLIT→CLT
Envoy Air · Little Rock to Charlotte
- Flights
- 653
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 52%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on LIT 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 653 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's LIT to CLT record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 111 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 644 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.23%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.2%
Every carrier on LIT to CLT, 1,262 flights
These figures cover 653 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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
Envoy against every carrier on LIT to CLT
Envoy flew 653 of the 1,262 flights on LIT to CLT, most of the route. Its 88.4% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 84.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.4% to SkyWest at 75.9%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 653 | 88.4% | 55 min | 1.23% | A |
| PSA Airlines | 427 | 80.9% | 102 min | 4.45% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 41 | 80.5% | 32 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 141 | 75.9% | 187 min | 2.84% | B |
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Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am314 flights92.9%
- 8am–11am99 flights95.8%
- 11am–2pm65 flights83.1%
- 2pm–5pm75 flights81.3%
- 5pm–8pm100 flights75.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 95.8% of the time, against 75.5% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 314 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on LIT to CLT through the year
July is the worst month at 82.9% on time, 14 points below January, the best at 96.9%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 105 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 96.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.8%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on LIT to CLT runs when it is late
Envoy on LIT to CLT often beats the schedule: 195 of 644 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 40 of the 75 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 20 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early195 flights30.3%
- Within 15 min374 flights58.1%
- 15–29 min late40 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late15 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late8 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 644 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 87 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 29 still arrived on time. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on LIT to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 July 2026, 5 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as extreme weather.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2026 | 5 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 August 2026 | 5 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 January 2026 | 3 hours 21 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 16 March 2026 | 3 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 7 June 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy 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 4,090 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Extreme weather
- 24%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 26% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 4.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,090 reported delay minutes.
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,090 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 1 to one.
Cancellations sit at 1.23% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.15%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 640 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 80.7% on time across 654 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. 653 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 Envoy on LIT to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 653 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 88.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 644 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIT to CLT, every carrier
- Envoy on CLT to LIT, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on LIT to CLT80.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on LIT to CLT75.9%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- 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.