Route reliability record
VPS→CLT
Valparaiso to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,206
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 460 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.2 hours on average. That rests on 1,206 VPS to CLT flights, of which American Airlines flew 826 at 81.1% on time.
Best time to fly VPS to CLT: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 88.5%, against 78.6% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,171 completed flights
Avg delay
131 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.65%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
81.1% on time across 826 flights
These figures cover 1,206 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on VPS to CLT
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 81.1% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 72.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 380 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 826 | 81.1% | 131 min | 1.09% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 380 | 72.8% | 131 min | 6.05% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 6.0% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on VPS 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 Valparaiso 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. 3 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. PNS → CLTPensacola to Charlotte | American Airlines | 84.2% | 85.4% | 1.39% | 5pm–8pm, Tue | — |
| 2. ECP → CLTPanama City to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 82.0% | 83.7% | 2.09% | 8am–11am, Wed (route) | — |
| 3. VPS → CLTValparaiso to Charlotte | American Airlines | 80.2% | 81.1% | 1.09% | 5am–8am, Wed | AA 2909 16:40 |
| 4. PNS → CLTPensacola to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 80.1% | 82.3% | 2.67% | 5am–8am, Wed | OH 5353 05:23 |
| 5. VPS → CLTValparaiso to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 68.4% | 72.8% | 6.05% | 11am–2pm, 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 28 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am263 flights88.8%
- 8am–11am101 flights91.6%
- 11am–2pm358 flights79.7%
- 2pm–5pm211 flights77.1%
- 5pm–8pm273 flights63.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.2% on time, against 91.6% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 358 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter VPS 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 VPS to CLT, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 91.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 63.2%, a wide gap of 28.4 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am88.8%
- 8–11am91.6%
- 11am–2pm79.7%
- 2–5pm77.1%
- 5–8pm63.2%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 55% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 36 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.
July is the worst month at 56.4% on time, 36 points below November, 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. August was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.5%, a spread of 17 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 33,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 33,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 23 to one. The split is drawn from 32,850 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 16,000 of the 33,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.65%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
11.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 460 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.0% on time across 1,206 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 1,206 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. November runs 91.9% on time and July 56.4%, a swing of 36 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,171 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
VPS to CLT questions
How often is VPS to CLT delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 21.4% of the 1,206 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about 2.2 hours on average.
Which airline is most reliable on VPS to CLT?
American Airlines leads at 81.1% on time across 826 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 72.8%, a gap of 8 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 VPS to CLT?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 91.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 63.2%, 28 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 July delays on VPS to CLT?
July is the weakest month at 56.4% on time, compared with 91.9% in November. Across the year that is 36 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 VPS — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- American Airlines on VPS to CLT81.1%
- PSA Airlines on VPS to CLT72.8%
- VPS to ATL, a related route84.1%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- VPS to DFW, a related route73.2%
- American Airlines on-time record81.1%
- PSA Airlines on-time record72.8%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. VPS to CLT and CLT to VPS 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.