Route reliability record
SAV→CLT
Savannah to Charlotte
- Flights
- 2,039
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 213 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 2,039 SAV to CLT flights, of which PSA Airlines flew 1,456 at 85.9% on time.
Best time to fly SAV to CLT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 93.0% of the time and Wednesday flights 89.8%, against 86.0% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,000 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.81%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
85.9% on time across 1,456 flights
These figures cover 2,039 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 SAV to CLT
The two carriers here are closely matched: about 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 | 71 | 95.8% | 27 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 1,456 | 85.9% | 96 min | 2.40% | A |
| American Airlines | 512 | 84.7% | 69 min | 0.39% | B+ |
No carrier stands out. PSA tops the table at 85.9%, about 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 Savannah to Charlotte
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. HHH → CLTHilton Head Island to Charlotte | Envoy Air | 87.1% | 88.5% | 1.63% | 11am–2pm, Tue | — |
| 2. SAV → CLTSavannah to Charlotte | American Airlines | 84.4% | 84.7% | 0.39% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 3. SAV → CLTSavannah to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 83.8% | 85.9% | 2.40% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
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 18 points, against about a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am644 flights93.0%
- 8am–11am324 flights91.2%
- 11am–2pm353 flights87.2%
- 2pm–5pm364 flights76.0%
- 5pm–8pm237 flights78.3%
- 8pm–5am117 flights75.4%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.0% of the time, against 75.4% for the overnight window. That is 18 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 644 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter SAV 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 SAV to CLT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 93.0% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 75.4%, a wide gap of 17.6 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am93.0%
- 8–11am91.2%
- 11am–2pm87.2%
- 2–5pm76.0%
- 5–8pm78.3%
- 8pm–5am75.4%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 16 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.
December is the weak month at 78.1% on time, against 94.0% in October. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 235 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.3%, a spread of 10 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 25,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 25,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 24,720 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 93.0% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.81% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.10%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
6.2% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 213 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 75.5% on time across 2,043 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,039 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. October runs 94.0% on time and December 78.1%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 2,000 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SAV to CLT questions
How often is SAV to CLT delayed?
About one flight in seven arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 14.0% of the 2,039 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on SAV to CLT?
PSA Airlines leads at 85.9% on time across 1,456 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 84.7%, a gap of about 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 SAV to CLT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 93.0% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 75.4%, 18 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 December delays on SAV to CLT?
December is the weakest month at 78.1% on time, compared with 94.0% in October. Across the year that is 16 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 SAV — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on SAV to CLT85.9%
- American Airlines on SAV to CLT84.7%
- SAV to ATL, a related route87.1%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- SAV to ORD, a related route77.4%
- Envoy Air on-time record95.8%
- PSA Airlines on-time record85.9%
- American Airlines on-time record84.7%
- 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. SAV to CLT and CLT to SAV 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.