OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Charlotte to San Francisco

2,296 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on CLT–SFO arrive on time 69% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate69%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.8%of scheduled flights

based on 1,597 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time69%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel0.8%
    Flights1,597

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline34%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)19%
  • Late aircraft41%
  • 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 → SFO

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 — 80% on time.

  • Mornings80% on time · p90 25 min · 937 flights
  • Middays72% on time · p90 50 min · 606 flights
  • Afternoons65% on time · p90 60 min · 895 flights
  • Overnights58% on time · p90 75 min · 880 flights
  • Evenings57% on time · p90 80 min · 1,439 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 60% to 69% on time.

  • Wednesdays69% on time · p90 55 min · 654 flights
  • Tuesdays68% on time · p90 55 min · 610 flights
  • Saturdays67% on time · p90 60 min · 659 flights
  • Fridays66% on time · p90 55 min · 702 flights
  • Thursdays63% on time · p90 60 min · 709 flights
  • Mondays62% on time · p90 65 min · 706 flights
  • Sundays60% on time · p90 80 min · 717 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.