Route reliability record
MHT→CLT
Manchester to Charlotte
- Flights
- 944
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 738 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.6% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% 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 944 MHT to CLT flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly MHT to CLT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Thursday. Flights in that window arrived on time 90.4% of the time and Thursday flights 83.5%, against 78.2% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 905 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.60%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
78.2% on time across 944 flights
These figures cover 944 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on MHT to CLT
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 944 | 78.2% | 103 min | 3.60% | B− |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Manchester to Charlotte
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 2 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. BOS → CLTBoston to Charlotte | American Airlines | 81.5% | 83.3% | 2.20% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. BOS → CLTBoston to Charlotte | Republic Airways | 76.9% | 79.7% | 3.54% | 5am–8am, Sat | YX 5626 06:25 |
| 3. MHT → CLTManchester to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 75.4% | 78.2% | 3.60% | 5am–8am, Thu | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 28 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am363 flights90.4%
- 8am–11am5 flights—
- 11am–2pm188 flights69.4%
- 2pm–5pm215 flights77.4%
- 5pm–8pm173 flights62.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 62.8% on time, against 90.4% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter MHT to CLT by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On MHT to CLT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 90.4% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 62.8%, a wide gap of 27.6 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am90.4%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm69.4%
- 2–5pm77.4%
- 5–8pm62.8%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 55% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 34 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 60.2% on time, 34 points below October, the best at 94.6%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 94 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 83.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.8%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 20,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. The split is drawn from 20,273 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,773 of the 20,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.60%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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 actually costs
9.3% 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 738 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 77.4% on time across 944 flights, within about 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. 944 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in CLT after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.60% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 905 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
MHT to CLT questions
How often is MHT to CLT delayed?
Roughly one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 21.8% of the 944 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is MHT to CLT compared with the rest of the country?
78.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of about a point in its favour. That is worth a B− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on MHT to CLT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 90.4% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 62.8%, 28 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on MHT to CLT?
July is the weakest month at 60.2% on time, compared with 94.6% in October. Across the year that is 34 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to MHT — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- MHT to BWI, a related route88.4%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- MHT to DCA, a related route69.7%
- PSA Airlines on-time record78.2%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. MHT to CLT and CLT to MHT are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.