Route reliability record
OMA→CLT
Omaha to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,003
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 913 mi
- Carriers
- 2
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 1,003 OMA to CLT flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Best time to fly OMA to CLT: a 2pm–5pm departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 89.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 95.6%, against 84.4% 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 71 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 986 completed flights
Avg delay
102 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
85.1% on time across 965 flights
These figures cover 1,003 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 OMA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 965 | 85.1% | 103 min | 1.55% | A |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 38 | 65.8% | 89 min | 0.00% | C+ |
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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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am365 flights88.9%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm52 flights72.5%
- 2pm–5pm286 flights89.6%
- 5pm–8pm300 flights75.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 72.5% on time against 89.6% for 2pm–5pm. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter OMA 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 OMA to CLT, the best departure window is 2pm–5pm at 89.6% on time and the worst is 11am–2pm at 72.5%, a wide gap of 17.1 points. All US flights leaving 2pm–5pm ran 71.9%.
- 5–8am88.9%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm72.5%
- 2–5pm89.6%
- 5–8pm75.9%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 15 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.
June is the worst month at 75.3% on time, 15 points below April, the best at 89.9%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 95.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.1%, a spread of 19 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 43%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 25 to one. The split is drawn from 15,709 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,719 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.50% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.20%.
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.
The 913 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 78.3% on time across 1,003 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,003 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.
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What to do with this
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,003 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 84.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 986 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
OMA to CLT questions
How often is OMA 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 15.6% of the 1,003 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is OMA to CLT compared with the rest of the country?
84.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 7 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on OMA to CLT?
The 2pm–5pm departure window is the strongest at 89.6% on time. The 11am–2pm window is the weakest at 72.5%, 17 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 June delays on OMA to CLT?
June is the weakest month at 75.3% on time, compared with 89.9% in April. Across the year that is 15 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 OMA — the return legseparate record
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- OMA to DEN, a related route75.8%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- OMA to ORD, a related route74.2%
- American Airlines on-time record85.1%
- PSA Airlines on-time record65.8%
- 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. OMA to CLT and CLT to OMA 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.