Route reliability record
SGF→CLT
Springfield to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,176
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 708 mi
- Carriers
- 2
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 1,176 SGF to CLT flights, of which Envoy Air flew 646 at 91.2% on time.
Best time to fly SGF to CLT: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 96.9% of the time and Tuesday flights 92.6%, against 86.6% 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 93 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,151 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.87%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
91.2% on time across 646 flights
These figures cover 1,176 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
Which airline is most reliable on SGF to CLT
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 91.2% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 81.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 530 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 646 | 91.2% | 64 min | 1.24% | A |
| PSA Airlines | 530 | 81.0% | 93 min | 2.64% | B |
Envoy leads PSA by 10 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
Flight by flight
Flights on SGF to CLT
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Springfield to Charlotte
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. SGF → CLTSpringfield to Charlotte | Envoy Air | 90.1% | 91.2% | 1.24% | 8am–11am, Tue | MQ 4083 06:15 |
| 2. SGF → CLTSpringfield to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 78.9% | 81.0% | 2.64% | 11am–2pm, Tue | — |
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 21 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am296 flights94.9%
- 8am–11am70 flights96.9%
- 11am–2pm433 flights84.9%
- 2pm–5pm173 flights85.5%
- 5pm–8pm204 flights75.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 96.9% of the time, against 75.8% for the evening window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 433 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter SGF 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 SGF to CLT, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 96.9% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 75.8%, a wide gap of 21.1 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am94.9%
- 8–11am96.9%
- 11am–2pm84.9%
- 2–5pm85.5%
- 5–8pm75.8%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 100%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 17 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 78.6% on time, 17 points below January, the best at 96.0%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 114 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 92.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 82.1%, a spread of 11 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Extreme weather
- 13%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 21% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,662 reported delay minutes.
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations sit at 1.87% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.26%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
5.6% 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.
The 708 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 81.6% on time across 1,176 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,176 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. January runs 96.0% on time and June 78.6%, a swing of 17 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,151 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SGF to CLT questions
How often is SGF 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 13.4% of the 1,176 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 SGF to CLT?
Envoy Air leads at 91.2% on time across 646 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 81.0%, a gap of 10 points. 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 SGF to CLT?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 96.9% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 75.8%, 21 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 SGF to CLT?
June is the weakest month at 78.6% on time, compared with 96.0% in January. Across the year that is 17 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 SGF — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on SGF to CLT91.2%
- PSA Airlines on SGF to CLT81.0%
- SGF to DFW, a related route82.0%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- SGF to ORD, a related route71.2%
- Envoy Air on-time record91.2%
- PSA Airlines on-time record81.0%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
Direction matters. SGF to CLT and CLT to SGF 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.