OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Charlotte to Columbia

88 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on CLT–CAE arrive on time 70% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate70%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.7%of scheduled flights

based on 520 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • PSA Airlines
    On-time70%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel2.7%
    Flights520

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline30%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)7%
  • Late aircraft58%
  • Security0%

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 → CAE

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

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 92% on time.

  • Mornings92% on time · p90 5 min · 325 flights
  • Middays86% on time · p90 25 min · 521 flights
  • Evenings78% on time · p90 45 min · 521 flights
  • Afternoons77% on time · p90 40 min · 485 flights
  • Overnights73% on time · p90 60 min · 1,122 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 77% to 82% on time.

  • Wednesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 428 flights
  • Tuesdays80% on time · p90 55 min · 392 flights
  • Saturdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 367 flights
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 40 min · 446 flights
  • Mondays78% on time · p90 60 min · 446 flights
  • Thursdays77% on time · p90 35 min · 442 flights
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 45 min · 454 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.