OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Charlotte to St. Louis

575 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on CLT–STL arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.3%of scheduled flights

based on 1,789 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
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights1,636
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights153

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline29%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • 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 → STL

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 66% to 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 20 min · 1,042 flights
  • Middays82% on time · p90 30 min · 1,421 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 55 min · 1,058 flights
  • Evenings68% on time · p90 70 min · 1,347 flights
  • Overnights66% on time · p90 70 min · 1,003 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 72% to 79% on time.

  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 45 min · 825 flights
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 40 min · 802 flights
  • Saturdays73% on time · p90 55 min · 733 flights
  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 50 min · 874 flights
  • Fridays73% on time · p90 50 min · 875 flights
  • Mondays72% on time · p90 55 min · 883 flights
  • Sundays72% on time · p90 55 min · 881 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.