OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Philadelphia to Charleston

550 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PHL–CHS arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.5%of scheduled flights

based on 1,216 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.

  • Republic Airways
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel2.5%
    Flights159
  • PSA Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9075 min
    Cancel3.8%
    Flights182
  • American Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel2.2%
    Flights875

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline22%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)17%
  • Late aircraft57%
  • 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 PHL → CHS

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 68% to 83% on time.

  • Mornings83% on time · p90 25 min · 1,165 flights
  • Middays81% on time · p90 40 min · 681 flights
  • Overnights72% on time · p90 45 min · 333 flights
  • Afternoons72% on time · p90 75 min · 1,130 flights
  • Evenings68% on time · p90 75 min · 773 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 71% to 81% on time.

  • Tuesdays81% on time · p90 35 min · 525 flights
  • Wednesdays81% on time · p90 40 min · 550 flights
  • Saturdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 555 flights
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 65 min · 635 flights
  • Sundays75% on time · p90 50 min · 595 flights
  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 65 min · 579 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 75 min · 643 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.