OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Los Angeles to Charlotte

2,125 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on LAX–CLT arrive on time 83% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate83%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.5%of scheduled flights

based on 2,474 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time83%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.5%
    Flights2,474

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline35%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)10%
  • Late aircraft53%
  • 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 LAX → CLT

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 77% to 84% on time.

  • Overnights84% on time · p90 25 min · 2,579 flights
  • Mornings84% on time · p90 25 min · 3,282 flights
  • Early mornings84% on time · p90 20 min · 98 flights · limited
  • Afternoons80% on time · p90 35 min · 326 flights
  • Middays77% on time · p90 40 min · 1,744 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 79% to 86% on time.

  • Tuesdays86% on time · p90 25 min · 1,077 flights
  • Wednesdays85% on time · p90 25 min · 1,134 flights
  • Mondays83% on time · p90 30 min · 1,155 flights
  • Saturdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 1,125 flights
  • Sundays82% on time · p90 35 min · 1,196 flights
  • Thursdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 1,170 flights
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 35 min · 1,172 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.