Carrier route record
OOLIT→CLT
SkyWest Airlines · Little Rock to Charlotte
- Flights
- 141
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on LIT to CLT sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 3.1 hours behind schedule. That rests on 141 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 653 at 88.4% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on LIT 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
75.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 137 completed flights
Avg delay
187 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.84%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.2%
Every carrier on LIT to CLT, 1,262 flights
These figures cover 141 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on LIT to CLT
SkyWest flew 141 of the 1,262 flights on LIT to CLT, about 11% of it. Its 75.9% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.4% to SkyWest at 75.9%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 88.4% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 80.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 427 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 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 Airlines (this page)thin sample | 141 | 75.9% | 187 min | 2.84% | B |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.5% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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Departure window
When SkyWest 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 141 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's LIT to CLT record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 75.9% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
SkyWest on LIT to CLT through the year
- Jan–Mar 202648 flights71.7%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights80.0%
- Jul–Sep 202652 flights76.5%
Scale runs 65% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 75.9% on time across 141 flights.
Quarter by quarter SkyWest on LIT to CLT held fairly steady: 71.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 80.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 76.5% in Jul–Sep 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 SkyWest on LIT to CLT runs when it is late
SkyWest on LIT to CLT often beats the schedule: 45 of 137 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on LIT to CLT is late it tends to be very late: 25 of its 33 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 19 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early45 flights32.8%
- Within 15 min59 flights43.1%
- 15–29 min late4 flights2.9%
- 30–59 min late4 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late19 flights13.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 137 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 37 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on LIT to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 August 2026, 8 hours 53 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2026 | 8 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 July 2026 | 7 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 March 2026 | 7 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 March 2026 | 6 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 February 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 69% of the 6,155 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
- 1%National Airspace System
69% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,155 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 6,155 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 75.9% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.84%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
18.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 runs 74.3% on time across 141 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. 141 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 SkyWest on LIT to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.84% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 3.1 hours; 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. 137 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIT to CLT, every carrier
- SkyWest on CLT to LIT, the return leg
- Envoy Air on LIT to CLT88.4%
- PSA Airlines on LIT to CLT80.9%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- 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.