OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Charlotte to Albany

646 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on CLT–ALB arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 984 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights984

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline24%
  • Weather19%
  • Air traffic (NAS)7%
  • Late aircraft50%
  • Security1%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly CLT → ALB

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 62% to 86% on time.

  • Mornings86% on time · p90 25 min · 987 flights
  • Middays83% on time · p90 30 min · 258 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 50 min · 1,017 flights
  • Evenings66% on time · p90 75 min · 167 flights · limited
  • Overnights62% on time · p90 85 min · 973 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 71% to 79% on time.

  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 482 flights
  • Tuesdays76% on time · p90 55 min · 464 flights
  • Sundays73% on time · p90 50 min · 509 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 50 min · 500 flights
  • Saturdays72% on time · p90 55 min · 473 flights
  • Thursdays71% on time · p90 55 min · 488 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 65 min · 489 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.