Carrier route record
AAVPS→CLT
American Airlines · Valparaiso to Charlotte
- Flights
- 826
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 68%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on VPS to CLT lands a B, 4 points 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 826 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on VPS to CLT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
81.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 814 completed flights
Avg delay
131 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.09%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.6%
Every carrier on VPS to CLT, 1,206 flights
These figures cover 826 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on VPS to CLT
American flew 826 of the 1,206 flights on VPS to CLT, most of the route. Its 81.1% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 81.1% to PSA at 72.8%.
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) | 826 | 81.1% | 131 min | 1.09% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 380 | 72.8% | 131 min | 6.05% | C− |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on VPS to CLT
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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 28 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am222 flights91.3%
- 8am–11am93 flights90.9%
- 11am–2pm234 flights76.3%
- 2pm–5pm211 flights77.1%
- 5pm–8pm66 flights63.1%
- 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: 63.1% on time, against 91.3% for the 5am–8am 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 234 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on VPS to CLT through the year
July is the worst month at 51.7% on time, 42 points below December, the best at 93.6%. 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 91 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 75.9%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on VPS to CLT runs when it is late
American on VPS to CLT often beats the schedule: 294 of 814 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 154 late arrivals split 48 under half an hour, 33 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 73 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early294 flights36.1%
- Within 15 min366 flights45.0%
- 15–29 min late48 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late33 flights4.1%
- 1–2 hours late37 flights4.5%
- 2+ hours late36 flights4.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 814 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
43 of 179 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 18 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on VPS to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 July 2026, 34 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | 34 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 July 2026 | 25 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 January 2026 | 22 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 September 2025 | 18 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 15 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 20,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. The split is drawn from 20,103 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,899 of the 20,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.09% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.36%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.0% 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.4% on time across 826 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 826 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 VPS to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 826 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 81.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 814 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- VPS to CLT, every carrier
- American on CLT to VPS, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on VPS to CLT72.8%
- 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.