OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Charlotte to Memphis

512 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on CLT–MEM arrive on time 73% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate73%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.8%of scheduled flights

based on 1,734 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • PSA Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel4.7%
    Flights300
  • American Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.3%
    Flights1,434

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline33%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)12%
  • Late aircraft49%
  • 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 → MEM

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 — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 20 min · 1,422 flights
  • Middays82% on time · p90 35 min · 1,011 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 70 min · 515 flights
  • Evenings64% on time · p90 75 min · 1,437 flights
  • Overnights60% on time · p90 80 min · 1,314 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 77% on time.

  • Tuesdays77% on time · p90 45 min · 754 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 50 min · 799 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 55 min · 847 flights
  • Fridays72% on time · p90 55 min · 831 flights
  • Sundays70% on time · p90 70 min · 861 flights
  • Thursdays70% on time · p90 60 min · 841 flights
  • Saturdays69% on time · p90 70 min · 771 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.