Route reliability record
MYR→CLT
Myrtle Beach to Charlotte
- Flights
- 2,221
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 157 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 2,221 MYR to CLT flights, of which PSA Airlines flew 803 at 84.5% on time.
Best time to fly MYR to CLT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.4% of the time and Wednesday flights 88.5%, against 84.1% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 68 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,176 completed flights
Avg delay
112 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.89%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
84.5% on time across 803 flights
These figures cover 2,221 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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
Which airline is most reliable on MYR to CLT
The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 52 | 87.5% | 47 min | 7.69% | A− |
| PSA Airlines | 803 | 84.5% | 82 min | 2.74% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,366 | 83.8% | 130 min | 1.17% | B |
No carrier stands out. PSA tops the table at 84.5%, half a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Myrtle Beach to Charlotte
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. MYR → CLTMyrtle Beach to Charlotte | American Airlines | 82.8% | 83.8% | 1.17% | 11am–2pm, Wed | — |
| 2. MYR → CLTMyrtle Beach to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 82.2% | 84.5% | 2.74% | 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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am557 flights91.4%
- 8am–11am371 flights90.0%
- 11am–2pm330 flights87.6%
- 2pm–5pm395 flights79.4%
- 5pm–8pm461 flights74.7%
- 8pm–5am107 flights72.4%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.4% of the time, against 72.4% for the overnight window. That is 19 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 557 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter MYR 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 MYR to CLT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 91.4% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 72.4%, a wide gap of 19.0 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am91.4%
- 8–11am90.0%
- 11am–2pm87.6%
- 2–5pm79.4%
- 5–8pm74.7%
- 8pm–5am72.4%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 17 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 74.8% on time, 17 points below April, the best at 91.5%. 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 232 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.8%, a spread of 12 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 39,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 39,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 to one. The split is drawn from 38,789 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 13,000 of the 39,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.89% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.14%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
7.5% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 157 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.6% on time across 2,220 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.
The sample behind these figures is 2,221 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in CLT after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 91.5% on time and July 74.8%, a swing of 17 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,176 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
MYR to CLT questions
How often is MYR to CLT delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 15.9% of the 2,221 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
Which airline is most reliable on MYR to CLT?
PSA Airlines leads at 84.5% on time across 803 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 83.8%, a gap of half a point. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on MYR to CLT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 91.4% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 72.4%, 19 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 MYR to CLT?
July is the weakest month at 74.8% on time, compared with 91.5% in April. Across the year that is 17 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 MYR — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on MYR to CLT84.5%
- American Airlines on MYR to CLT83.8%
- MYR to ATL, a related route88.6%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- MYR to BWI, a related route83.2%
- Envoy Air on-time record87.5%
- PSA Airlines on-time record84.5%
- American Airlines on-time record83.8%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. MYR to CLT and CLT to MYR 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.