Carrier route record
AAPNS→CLT
American Airlines · Pensacola to Charlotte
- Flights
- 577
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 31%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on PNS to CLT earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.8 hours. That rests on 577 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's PNS to CLT record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 569 completed flights
Avg delay
166 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.39%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.5%
Every carrier on PNS to CLT, 1,847 flights
These figures cover 577 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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
American against every carrier on PNS to CLT
American flew 577 of the 1,847 flights on PNS to CLT, about 31% of it. Its 85.4% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 83.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.6% to PSA at 82.3%. 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 | 70 | 88.6% | 34 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 577 | 85.4% | 166 min | 1.39% | A |
| PSA Airlines | 1,200 | 82.3% | 147 min | 2.67% | B |
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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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am67 flights76.1%
- 8am–11am92 flights81.5%
- 11am–2pm266 flights86.8%
- 2pm–5pm75 flights85.3%
- 5pm–8pm77 flights93.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 93.5% on time. The full set of windows spans 17 points.
Across the year
American on PNS to CLT through the year
July is the worst month at 69.0% on time, 23 points below April, the best at 91.9%. 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 76 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 92.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.5%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on PNS to CLT runs when it is late
American on PNS to CLT often beats the schedule: 243 of 569 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 83 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 34 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early243 flights42.7%
- Within 15 min243 flights42.7%
- 15–29 min late28 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late21 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late18 flights3.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 569 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
18 of 97 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on PNS to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 29 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 29 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 October 2025 | 26 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 July 2026 | 23 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 April 2026 | 19 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 August 2026 | 19 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 13,775 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,381 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.39% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.0% 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 about 2.8 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 488 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.6% on time across 577 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. 577 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 American on PNS to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 577 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 85.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 569 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PNS to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to PNS, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on PNS to CLT82.3%
- 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 7.05 million flight records
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.