Carrier route record
AAMYR→CLT
American Airlines · Myrtle Beach to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,377
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 60%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on MYR to CLT 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 1,377 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's MYR to CLT record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 69 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,361 completed flights
Avg delay
114 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.09%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
84.2%
Every carrier on MYR to CLT, 2,277 flights
These figures cover 1,377 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on MYR to CLT
American flew 1,377 of the 2,277 flights on MYR to CLT, most of the route. Its 84.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.8% to PSA at 83.7%. One 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 Airthin sample | 57 | 86.8% | 49 min | 7.02% | A− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,377 | 84.5% | 114 min | 1.09% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 843 | 83.7% | 83 min | 2.61% | B |
Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am518 flights90.8%
- 8am–11am263 flights91.1%
- 11am–2pm115 flights94.8%
- 2pm–5pm189 flights69.7%
- 5pm–8pm202 flights73.1%
- 8pm–5am90 flights73.0%
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 94.8% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 69.7%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 518 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on MYR to CLT through the year
July is the worst month at 74.4% on time, 21 points below April, the best at 94.9%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 166 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 88.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 78.1%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 24,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 24,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 24,125 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 34%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 8,309 of the 24,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.09% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.07%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.9% on time across 1,377 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,377 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.
What to do with this
Booking American on MYR to CLT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 94.9% on time and July 74.4%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,361 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MYR to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to MYR, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on MYR to CLT83.7%
- American Airlines 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 7.04 million flight records
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.