Carrier route record
AAPVD→CLT
American Airlines · Providence to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,172
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 79%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on PVD 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 6 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 1,172 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's PVD to CLT record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,147 completed flights
Avg delay
113 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.13%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.7%
Every carrier on PVD to CLT, 1,490 flights
These figures cover 1,172 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 PVD to CLT
American flew 1,172 of the 1,490 flights on PVD to CLT, most of the route. Its 84.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 82.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 84.0% to PSA at 78.0%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,172 | 84.0% | 113 min | 2.13% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 318 | 78.0% | 59 min | 2.83% | 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 16 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–8am358 flights91.3%
- 8am–11am244 flights88.8%
- 11am–2pm161 flights79.2%
- 2pm–5pm160 flights77.7%
- 5pm–8pm249 flights75.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.3% of the time, against 75.8% for the evening window. That is 16 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 358 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on PVD to CLT through the year
January is the weak month at 75.6% on time, against 97.4% in April. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. July was the busiest month here, with 123 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 89.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 76.2%. 14 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. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 21,000 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.
- 51%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, 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 11,000 of the 21,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 20,733 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.3% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.13% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.7% 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.
The 684 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.3% on time across 1,171 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 1,172 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 PVD to CLT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 97.4% on time and January 75.6%, a swing of 22 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of January before you think about anything else. 1,147 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PVD to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to PVD, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on PVD to CLT78.0%
- 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.