OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Charlotte to Norfolk

290 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate73%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.6%of scheduled flights

based on 2,576 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.

  • American Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel0.8%
    Flights1,320
  • PSA Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel2.4%
    Flights1,256

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather7%
  • Air traffic (NAS)10%
  • Late aircraft55%
  • 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 → ORF

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 — 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 20 min · 1,654 flights
  • Middays81% on time · p90 35 min · 1,335 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 60 min · 1,629 flights
  • Overnights66% on time · p90 75 min · 1,924 flights
  • Evenings65% on time · p90 85 min · 1,037 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 78% on time.

  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,014 flights
  • Wednesdays77% on time · p90 45 min · 1,070 flights
  • Thursdays75% on time · p90 50 min · 1,119 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 50 min · 1,121 flights
  • Saturdays73% on time · p90 65 min · 1,008 flights
  • Sundays71% on time · p90 70 min · 1,140 flights
  • Fridays69% on time · p90 65 min · 1,110 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.