CLT Airport: 74.8% on time, worst at 12 AM

CLT right now

Live conditions where a permitted source publishes them, and the historical record where none does.

No disruption reported

Aviation weather is not currently a factor.

Departures at this hour

91.8% leave on time

06:00–06:59 local · 9,517 departures on record

Typical taxi out19 min

Median arrival11 min early

Cancelled1.4%

When flights run late in this hour, most of the delay is attributed to the airline.

Historical pattern for CLT from US DOT BTS — not a live reading.

Aviation weatherVFR

43°F · wind 7 kt

Minimal operational impact. Conditions are not a notable factor for operations right now.

Updated 09:52 UTC

Forecast issued 09:48Z.

Updated 09:48 UTC

Aircraft seen now

On the field1

Airborne within 15 NM10

Departed in the last hour0

Arrived in the last hour1

Below 10,000 ft, so aircraft overflying at cruise are not counted. These are observations, not an operational status: a count is a floor, since receiver coverage varies and a movement between two samples can be missed.

Updated 09:47 UTC

Aircraft observations from ADSB.lol (opens in a new tab) (Katia Esposito and contributing feeders), under the ODbL 1.0 (opens in a new tab). Derived data.

FlyerIntel shows live values only where a permitted source provides them. Sections without data are left empty rather than estimated.

Airport reliability

Departures from CLT, July 2023 – July 2026.

Airport Reliability Score

55/ 100Fair

Better than 16% of major US airports covered by FlyerIntel (64 compared)

Calculated from 618,243 flights. How this is calculated

Departures arriving on time

74.8%

453,717 of 606,467 completed

Cancellation rate

1.67%

10,304 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-4 min

Average 11.5 min

Severe delays

9.3%

Arrived 60+ minutes late

Delay when late

72 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Departures analyzed

618,243

618,237 arrivals

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What stands out

How this airport compares to others like it, not just to itself.

Reliability here swings unusually widely by season, a wider month-to-month spread than 94% of 306 comparable airports.

83.5% on time in a typical November, against 62.0% in July.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other airport with the same kind of figure and at least 306 in the comparison.

Why flights are cancelled at CLT

Every cancellation carries a reason code filed by the airline that operated the flight. Departures, July 2023 – July 2026.

Extreme weather accounts for 80.9% of cancelled departures from CLT — about 1 in every 74 scheduled departures. That is 21 points higher than the 59.5% recorded across every airport FlyerIntel covers.

Share of cancellations

Weather80.9%

Airline13.0%

Air traffic6.1%

Security0.0%

Of 10,304 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 74

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

8,334 cancellations, 80.9% of the total.

The airline1 in 460

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

1,343 cancellations, 13.0% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 988

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

626 cancellations, 6.1% of the total.

Security1 in 618,243

A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.

1 cancellation, <0.1% of the total.

10,304 of 618,243 scheduled departures from CLT were cancelled. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.

By carrier

Cancellation causes by carrier at CLT
Carrier	Cancelled	Rate	Airline	Weather	Air traffic	Security
American Airlines AA	5,411	1.46%	8%	88%	4%	0%
PSA Airlines OH	3,009	1.98%	13%	84%	3%	<1%

Shares are of each carrier’s own coded cancellations at CLT and run across the row, so they total 100%. “Rate” is cancellations as a share of that carrier’s scheduled departures here. Two carriers on the same runways in the same weather can file very different splits, so read this as what each airline reported about itself, not as a ranking of fault. Carriers below the published minimum of coded cancellations are not listed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026 · Reason codes are each airline’s own filing, not an independent finding of fault. Shown for airports with at least 500 coded cancellations; 10,304 were recorded at CLT.

Why flights run late at CLT

Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on departures from CLT.

Late-arriving aircraft47.0%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline30.0%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Air traffic control15.1%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather7.5%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.3%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for departures from CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Of the 122,581 departures from CLT that left 15 or more minutes late and have a known inbound aircraft, 52% followed a flight that landed 15 or more minutes late. The other 48% left late even though the aircraft had come in on time or early. Across the 64 covered airports that share runs from 47% to 73%, with a median of 62%; CLT’s is the 9th lowest.

The late flight is the one the same aircraft flew into CLT just before, found from the tail number in the DOT file. Airlines and hours differ from one airport to the next, so this describes the departures from CLT and does not rate the airport.

An airport is only partly the author of its own delays. Late-arriving aircraft describes the national schedule arriving here more than anything about this airfield. Air traffic control covers airspace and airport capacity, which is where a congested airport shows up; only the airline category sits squarely inside the carriers’ own operation. How differently they run it is further down this page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What weather costs at CLT

Departures from CLT by the weather at the airport in the hour they were scheduled to leave, July 2023 – July 2026.

9.0% of scheduled departures from CLT left in an hour of bad weather. 5.7% of them were cancelled, against 1.2% in normal conditions, and 63.5% of the ones that flew arrived on time, against 75.9%. Those hours held 31% of all cancelled departures. That is about 2,460 more cancellations than the normal-conditions rate would give.

Cancellations were highest in snow or ice hours: 71.3% of 1,736 departures, 57.4 times the normal rate.

Airlines filed 81% of CLT’s coded cancellations under extreme weather. By the weather at the airport in the scheduled hour, 31% of cancelled departures were in bad-weather hours. A code is the airline’s stated reason and an hour’s weather is what the airport reported, so the two need not match.

By weather

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Cancellation and on-time rates at CLT by the weather at the airport in the scheduled departure hour
Weather at the airport	Departures	Cancelled	Left on time	Arrived on time	Avg. departure delay
Normal conditionsVFR with no thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	518,50484.0% of all	1.2%	76.0%	75.9%	15.7 min
Any bad weatherIFR or LIFR, or a thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	55,3119.0% of all	5.7%4.6 times normal	66.0%	63.5%12.4 points below normal	27.6 min
MVFRceiling 1,000 to 3,000 feet or visibility 3 to 5 miles	46,4107.5% of all	2.5%2.0 times normal	74.0%	73.1%2.8 points below normal	18.0 min
IFRceiling 500 to 999 feet or visibility 1 to under 3 miles	31,9895.2% of all	4.3%3.5 times normal	69.5%	67.9%8.0 points below normal	22.6 min
LIFRceiling under 500 feet or visibility under 1 mile	13,9602.3% of all	5.9%4.8 times normal	69.7%	66.9%9.0 points below normal	23.4 min
Thunderstorma thunderstorm reported at the airport	8,8951.4% of all	10.1%8.1 times normal	33.3%	26.0%49.9 points below normal	73.0 min
Snow or icesnow, snow grains, ice pellets, freezing rain or freezing drizzle	1,7360.3% of all	71.3%57.4 times normal	62.6%	35.3%40.6 points below normal	42.0 min
Fogfog or freezing fog reported at the airport	2,9530.5% of all	10.8%8.7 times normal	67.0%	65.0%10.9 points below normal	24.6 min
Heavy rainheavy rain reported at the airport	7,3871.2% of all	6.1%4.9 times normal	49.0%	43.5%32.4 points below normal	47.7 min
High windwind of 25 knots or more, or gusts of 30 knots or more	4,7100.8% of all	10.2%8.2 times normal	53.4%	49.0%26.9 points below normal	44.3 min
Low ceilinga broken or overcast layer under 1,000 feet	38,3166.2% of all	2.9%2.3 times normal	73.1%	72.0%3.9 points below normal	18.0 min
Low visibilityvisibility under 3 miles	24,2783.9% of all	6.8%5.5 times normal	65.1%	61.9%14.0 points below normal	28.3 min

A departure is counted in every row its hour fits, so the rows overlap and do not add up. Left on time is a departure under 15 minutes late, and arrived on time an arrival under 15 minutes late; cancelled is the share of scheduled departures. Rows with fewer than 120 departures are not scored.

This is the weather reported at CLT in the hour a flight was scheduled to leave. It leaves out the weather at the destination and on the way, weather that arrived after the scheduled time, and anything else that goes wrong in a bad hour. An hour takes the worst conditions any report in it gave. Weather was matched to 99.9% of the airport’s scheduled departures; the rest left in hours with no report, or at a scheduled time the flight records cannot place exactly. Bad-weather hours are compared with normal hours at the same airport, not with what the same flights would have done in a clear sky: they also fall more often in some seasons and at some times of day.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records and Iowa Environmental Mesonet weather reports · July 2023 – July 2026 · Where the weather comes from, and its limits. All covered airports side by side: What Weather Costs Each Airport.

Which airlines hold up in bad weather at CLT

Cancellations by airline in hours of bad weather at CLT, against the other carriers in the same months, July 2023 – July 2026.

9% of the weather-matched departures from CLT left in an hour of bad weather at the airport. 5.7% of them were cancelled. That is 4.6 times the 1.2% in normal hours. No one carrier holds most of them; 9 airlines have enough to compare.

Compared with the other carriers at CLT in the same months, Delta Air Lines (2.9% cancelled against 5.9% for the others; below them in normal hours too) cancelled the fewest in bad weather and PSA Airlines (7.2% cancelled against 5.0% for the others; level with them in normal hours, so a bad-weather difference) the most. 4 more airlines are also clearly apart from the others.

Airlines in bad weather at CLT

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Cancellation rates by airline in hours of bad weather at CLT, against the other carriers in the same months and against the airline's own normal hours
Airline	Bad-weather departures	Cancelled	Other carriers	Normal hours
Delta Air Lines	1,8433% of bad-weather	2.9%below the others	5.9%	0.6%others 1.3%
Southwest Airlines	9902% of bad-weather	2.6%below the others	5.5%	0.7%others 1.3%
United Airlines	1,1052% of bad-weather	2.7%below the others	5.3%	1.4%others 1.1%
Republic Airways	9472% of bad-weather	5.1%	6.3%	2.7%others 1.3%
American Airlines	33,04460% of bad-weather	5.3%below the others	6.4%	1.1%others 1.5%
Spirit Airlines	1,0902% of bad-weather	6.1%	5.7%	2.3%others 1.2%
Frontier Airlines	8121% of bad-weather	6.7%	6.0%	3.1%others 1.2%
Envoy Air	1,5193% of bad-weather	7.2%above the others	5.9%	1.0%others 1.3%
PSA Airlines	13,27824% of bad-weather	7.2%above the others	5.0%	1.4%others 1.2%

Best first. The other carriers’ column applies their rate in each month to the airline’s own departures, so a stormy month is not held against it; the normal-hours column gives the same pair outside bad weather.

The 9 listed airlines flew 99% of the bad-weather departures at CLT; a carrier under 500 is not listed. The comparison does not hold the hour of the day, the destination or the aircraft fixed, and a gap counts as clear only at 2 standard errors and 0.3 points. Republic Airways, Envoy Air and PSA Airlines fly for mainline airlines and are counted as carriers of their own here, though they share the airport’s gates, its de-icing and often its decisions to cancel.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records and Iowa Environmental Mesonet weather reports · July 2023 – July 2026 · Where the weather comes from, and its limits. All covered airports side by side: What Weather Costs Each Airport.

Turning aircraft around at CLT

Time on the ground between one flight and the next of the same aircraft at CLT, and what a late arrival does to the next departure, July 2023 – July 2026.

The median turn at CLT is scheduled for 62 minutes on the ground and takes 70 minutes, against 56 minutes and 63 minutes across all airports. Aircraft are given longer on the ground here than at the typical airport. The 8 minutes by which the typical turn runs over its schedule are about what it is across all airports.

When the aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late (93,426 turns here, 62 minutes late on average), 74% of the turns were finished in no more than the scheduled ground time, against 68% across all airports. 64% of those flights left 15 or more minutes late, against 72%. After an aircraft that landed on time, 12% did (all airports 11%).

Given the turn lengths scheduled here, the network’s rates would give 74% finished in the schedule and 65% leaving late. At these turn lengths CLT looks like the network on both counts: late turns are finished in the schedule, and lateness passed on, about as often as elsewhere. 41% of its late-inbound turns had a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes, against 29% across all airports.

Turns at CLT against all airports

498,701 turns, July 2023 – July 2026

Aircraft turns at CLT against all airports: scheduled and actual time on the ground and what a late inbound aircraft does
Measure	CLT	All airports	All airports, same turn lengths
Median scheduled turn	62 min	56 min	—
Median actual turn	70 min	63 min	—
Turns that began with an aircraft 15+ minutes late	19%	19%	—
Late turns finished within the schedule	74%	68%	74%
Late inbound that left 15+ minutes late	64%	72%	65%
On-time inbound that left 15+ minutes late	12%	11%	—

The last column is the network’s rate at the turn lengths scheduled at CLT, band by band from under 30 minutes to 3 to 6 hours. A turn finishes within the schedule when the aircraft spent no more time on the ground than the schedule gave it.

A turn pairs an aircraft’s landing at CLT with its next departure from it by tail number; the aircraft is never named. These 498,701 turns are 81% of the flights that left CLT in the period; the rest are an aircraft’s first flight after a long stay, flights without a usable inbound, and cancelled flights. Ground time runs from the gate. Turns under 30 minutes are kept, but most leave late even after an on-time landing. Airlines set their own turn schedules, so this describes the airlines that fly at CLT and does not rate the airport.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records · July 2023 – July 2026 · Airports side by side: Where a Late Aircraft Gets Its Time Back.

What sets CLT apart

Where CLT’s hours, months, airlines and taxi time differ most from the other airports, July 2023 – July 2026.

12 AM is where CLT falls furthest behind the rest: 57.0% of its 12 AM departures arrive on time, 24.6 points below the 81.6% for that hour elsewhere.

July is CLT’s hardest month against the field, 62.0% on time to 70.4% elsewhere, 8.4 points short.

Delta Air Lines does better out of CLT than anywhere else it flies: 85.7% on time here, 82.0% on its other departures, 3.7 points apart.

Frontier Airlines’ departures from CLT arrive on time 64.8% of the time, 7.1 points worse than the 71.9% the same airline manages at its other airports.

Departing aircraft spend 21.2 minutes on average between pushback and takeoff at CLT, 2.6 minutes more than the 18.6 minutes at the other airports.

CLT against the other airports

July 2023 – July 2026

Where CLT differs most from the other covered airports, with the flights behind each figure
Measure	CLT	Elsewhere	Gap	Flights behind it
Hour: 12 AM departures	57.0%	81.6%	−24.6 pts	251 here, 33,027 elsewhere
Month: July	62.0%	70.4%	−8.4 pts	65,983 here, 1,920,500 elsewhere
Airline: Delta Air Lines	85.7%	82.0%	+3.7 pts	18,409 here, 3,083,716 elsewhere
Airline: Frontier Airlines	64.8%	71.9%	−7.1 pts	9,045 here, 605,916 elsewhere
Taxi-out: Departures	21.2 min	18.6 min	+2.6 min	608,315 here, 17,021,794 elsewhere

"Elsewhere" is every other covered airport together, taken from the same aggregates as this page with CLT’s own flights removed (for airlines, that airline’s flights from all its other airports). Hours, months and airlines appear only where both sides have at least 120 completed flights (airlines 500) and the gap is at least 2 points and 2 standard errors; only the largest gap in each direction is shown. The taxi figure is weighted by departures and has no error estimate, so it appears from 2 minutes.

Best time to fly from CLT

On-time arrival rate by scheduled local departure time: each weekday and hour, and averaged over the week.

Flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 87.1% of the time, against 65.5% for 6–9 PM departures — a gap of 21.6 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time.

Thursday 6–7 AM was the most reliable slot at CLT (93.4% on time, 1,371 flights) and Sunday 7–8 PM the least (57.8%, 2,738 flights).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 8.4 points from the airport-wide rate, weekday averages 2.8 points.

On-time arrival rate at CLT by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM
6 AM–7 AM
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM
7 PM–8 PM
8 PM–9 PM
9 PM–10 PM
10 PM–11 PM
11 PM–12 AM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89
90–99

Most reliable slot
Least reliable slot

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.

Best and worst slots are named only among slots with 500+ flights, and only when the gap is larger than sampling error. Departures before 5 AM (258 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday at CLT. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM	87.5% on time473 flights	91.5% on time421 flights	92.1% on time419 flights	89.9% on time487 flights	89.8% on time493 flights	87.3% on time457 flights	86.6% on time478 flights
6 AM–7 AM	90.7% on time1,401 flights	92.4% on time1,372 flights	92.5% on time1,376 flights	93.4% on time1,371 flights	91.7% on time1,382 flights	88.7% on time1,294 flights	90.0% on time1,321 flights
7 AM–8 AM	85.6% on time6,543 flights	88.1% on time4,771 flights	87.3% on time5,515 flights	87.7% on time6,968 flights	86.2% on time6,622 flights	85.5% on time5,816 flights	86.1% on time6,863 flights
8 AM–9 AM	85.3% on time3,264 flights	85.7% on time3,479 flights	87.7% on time3,314 flights	86.0% on time3,030 flights	86.8% on time3,283 flights	84.7% on time2,942 flights	84.8% on time3,004 flights
9 AM–10 AM	84.0% on time7,659 flights	86.6% on time7,025 flights	88.0% on time7,321 flights	84.1% on time8,007 flights	84.2% on time7,588 flights	83.1% on time6,881 flights	84.2% on time7,922 flights
10 AM–11 AM	81.9% on time2,731 flights	86.1% on time3,117 flights	88.6% on time2,939 flights	80.9% on time2,253 flights	82.8% on time2,794 flights	83.3% on time2,234 flights	81.1% on time2,134 flights
11 AM–12 PM	81.2% on time8,903 flights	86.3% on time8,002 flights	86.3% on time8,331 flights	82.2% on time9,404 flights	81.4% on time8,861 flights	80.7% on time8,504 flights	81.4% on time9,441 flights
12 PM–1 PM	75.5% on time2,192 flights	85.7% on time2,440 flights	85.6% on time2,305 flights	78.6% on time1,804 flights	80.0% on time2,256 flights	79.3% on time1,736 flights	75.7% on time1,763 flights
1 PM–2 PM	78.4% on time6,358 flights	82.6% on time6,064 flights	82.7% on time6,138 flights	79.4% on time6,399 flights	76.5% on time6,354 flights	79.5% on time5,650 flights	76.5% on time6,421 flights
2 PM–3 PM	73.0% on time6,191 flights	78.1% on time5,793 flights	78.0% on time5,925 flights	73.5% on time6,200 flights	72.4% on time6,135 flights	74.8% on time5,623 flights	69.3% on time6,410 flights
3 PM–4 PM	69.7% on time4,045 flights	75.9% on time3,867 flights	76.2% on time3,934 flights	69.8% on time3,816 flights	69.5% on time4,063 flights	71.3% on time3,634 flights	65.8% on time3,814 flights
4 PM–5 PM	67.6% on time7,219 flights	73.0% on time6,636 flights	73.3% on time6,766 flights	67.1% on time7,315 flights	65.8% on time7,224 flights	69.0% on time6,749 flights	63.5% on time7,426 flights
5 PM–6 PM	66.2% on time3,825 flights	72.2% on time3,845 flights	72.9% on time3,938 flights	64.3% on time3,542 flights	64.0% on time3,826 flights	65.7% on time3,441 flights	61.7% on time3,577 flights
6 PM–7 PM	64.8% on time7,487 flights	69.5% on time6,858 flights	70.7% on time7,104 flights	63.9% on time7,608 flights	63.3% on time7,429 flights	66.8% on time7,197 flights	60.2% on time7,860 flights
7 PM–8 PM	66.7% on time3,184 flights	74.3% on time3,620 flights	75.4% on time3,436 flights	64.9% on time2,709 flights	64.0% on time3,261 flights	65.2% on time2,682 flights	57.8% on time2,738 flights
8 PM–9 PM	65.0% on time8,415 flights	69.6% on time7,328 flights	70.6% on time7,702 flights	64.6% on time8,488 flights	61.7% on time8,326 flights	64.5% on time7,820 flights	59.0% on time8,820 flights
9 PM–10 PM	67.4% on time3,386 flights	76.9% on time3,471 flights	76.2% on time3,393 flights	63.9% on time2,990 flights	67.9% on time3,351 flights	66.3% on time2,878 flights	60.2% on time3,032 flights
10 PM–11 PM	66.4% on time7,648 flights	71.3% on time5,092 flights	72.6% on time6,117 flights	66.0% on time7,778 flights	65.7% on time7,469 flights	67.4% on time6,960 flights	60.2% on time8,083 flights
11 PM–12 AM	64.5% on time516 flights	69.9% on time309 flights	65.7% on time335 flights	68.0% on time597 flights	68.6% on time520 flights	68.6% on time501 flights	63.7% on time618 flights

By departure window

All days combined

5–9 AM87.1%

9 AM–12 PM83.7%

12–3 PM77.3%

3–6 PM68.7%

6–9 PM65.5%

9 PM–5 AM67.2%

By departure hour

All days combined

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Buckets with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.

International arrivals

How long passport control normally takes here, hour by hour and hall by hall. This is the arrivals queue, not departure security — and it is history, not a live wait.

At Main, CLT’s busiest hall, both passport queues run much the same: a typical 7 min on a US passport and 11 min on any other, rising to 32 min on a busy day. Where the two halls agree like this, CBP’s combined figure of 8 min is a fair summary of both — which is not true everywhere, and is why they are shown apart.

Terminal by terminal, across the day

Terminal by terminal, across the day
Terminal	US passports	US busy day	Other passports	Other busy day	Global Entry
Main	7 min	17 min	11 min	32 min	14.9% of arrivals

US passports — Main

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

US citizens and lawful permanent residents, who use the US-passport lanes.

All other passports — Main

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Every other arriving passenger, including visa and visa-waiver travelers.

Hour by hour — Main

Hour by hour — Main
Cleared in hour	US passports	US busy day	Other passports	Other busy day	Booths open
12 PM–1 PM	17 min	34 min	29 min	50 min	7
1 PM–2 PM	5 min	13 min	12 min	33 min	7
2 PM–3 PM	6 min	12 min	9 min	24 min	7
3 PM–4 PM	6 min	13 min	9 min	20 min	6
4 PM–5 PM	8 min	16 min	15 min	33 min	7
5 PM–6 PM	7 min	18 min	12 min	35 min	6
6 PM–7 PM	9 min	18 min	13 min	29 min	6
7 PM–8 PM	8 min	16 min	11 min	26 min	6
8 PM–9 PM	8 min	13 min	9 min	18 min	6
9 PM–10 PM	6 min	12 min	8 min	17 min	5

US passports: clearing in the 12 PM–1 PM hour typically takes 17 min, against 5 min in the 1 PM–2 PM hour — 12 min between the slowest and fastest of 10 measured hours.

All other passports: clearing in the 12 PM–1 PM hour typically takes 29 min, against 8 min in the 9 PM–10 PM hour — 21 min between the slowest and fastest of 10 measured hours.

The hour is when CBP processed the passenger, not when the aircraft landed — allow for the walk from the gate. Hours with fewer than 120 days of records are not listed rather than shown as an estimate, which is why a terminal’s quietest hours are usually absent. “Busy day” is the 90th percentile: one arrival in ten is worse than that. Booths are how many CBP had open, and they follow the queue rather than prevent it — the busiest hours are staffed hardest and are still the slowest.

Source: US Customs and Border Protection · 2024-08-28 to 2026-10-16 · These are CBP passport control waits for arriving international passengers — a different queue from TSA departure screening. CBP publishes them about two days in arrears, so every figure here describes what has been typical over 2024-08-28 to 2026-10-16, and none of it is a live queue or a forecast for your flight. US and non-US passengers are reported separately by CBP and are kept separate here, because they are separate halls. FlyerIntel publishes a terminal or an hour only where CBP filed at least 120 hourly records for it, and an hour-by-hour breakdown only where at least 6 hours clear that floor.

What to expect at CLT

How busy the airport is through the day, from scheduled departure volume.

Departures a day

549

Average across the analysis period

Busiest hour

11 AM

About 55 departures

Typical taxi-out

21.2 min

Pushback to wheels-up, on departure

Typical taxi-in

12.8 min

Touchdown to gate, on arrival

Scheduled departures by hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

The busiest hour is 11 AM, with about 55 departures a day, against roughly 8 at 6 AM. That peak is also more punctual than a typical hour here, despite the volume.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Taxi-out runs from gate to wheels-up, averaged over departures and weighted by hour. Taxi-in runs from touchdown to gate.

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon73.8%

Tue78.8%

Wed79.3%

Thu74.0%

Fri73.2%

Sat74.2%

Sun70.8%

Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 8.5 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

July is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 21.5 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Airlines at CLT

Departure performance by operating carrier. Regional flights are reported by the carrier that operated them, not by the mainline brand.

Airlines at CLT
Carrier	Departures	On time	Cancelled	Median delay
American Airlines AA	370,231	73.1%	1.46%	-3 min
PSA Airlines OH	151,720	77.3%	1.98%	-5 min
Delta Air Lines DL	18,589	85.7%	0.83%	-11 min
Envoy Air MQ	18,141	78.1%	1.53%	-4 min
Spirit Airlines NK	11,820	71.4%	2.72%	-3 min
United Airlines UA	10,839	78.6%	1.56%	-7 min
Southwest Airlines WN	10,153	74.9%	0.83%	-1 min
Republic Airways YX	9,663	82.3%	2.97%	-10 min
Frontier Airlines F9	9,380	64.8%	3.41%	1 min
Endeavor Air 9E	4,537	80.9%	4.08%	-11 min
SkyWest Airlines OO	2,170	74.2%	2.86%	-5 min
JetBlue B6	1,000	75.8%	2.40%	-6 min

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Carriers with fewer than 500 departures are not listed.

Routes from CLT

Ranked by FlyerIntel Route Reliability Score.

Most reliable

DTWDetroit68 ATLAtlanta66 BNANashville57 MIAMiami56 RDURaleigh–Durham55 DFWDallas–Fort Worth54 ORDChicago53 BOSBoston53

Least reliable

EWRNewark36 LGANew York41 MCOOrlando46 PHLPhiladelphia46 TPATampa51 FLLFort Lauderdale52 BOSBoston53 ORDChicago53

Busiest routes

Busiest routes from CLT
Destination	Flights	On time	Score
CLT → MCO Orlando	15,960	71.2%	46
CLT → LGA New York	15,859	72.1%	41
CLT → ATL Atlanta	15,216	80.0%	66
CLT → BOS Boston	14,289	74.3%	53
CLT → ORD Chicago	13,785	74.2%	53
CLT → DFW Dallas–Fort Worth	12,367	74.3%	54
CLT → EWR Newark	11,643	71.3%	36
CLT → BNA Nashville	11,622	74.6%	57
CLT → PHL Philadelphia	11,585	72.7%	46
CLT → MIA Miami	11,276	74.8%	56
CLT → DTW Detroit	11,180	80.7%	68
CLT → TPA Tampa	10,879	73.1%	51

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Only routes with at least 10,000 flights are ranked.

See all 28 routes to and from CLT →

Reliability over time

On-time arrival rate for departures, by month.

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25

26

Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), departures from CLT arrived on time 76.6% of the time, against 75.1% in the 12 months before — improving by 1.5 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Data and sources

Historical statistics

Every historical figure on this page is calculated by FlyerIntel from US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time performance records covering July 2023 – July 2026, comprising 618,243 departures from CLT. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule.

Full methodology · All data sources

Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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Latest observation for CLT: METAR KCLT 180952Z 01007KT 10SM CLR 06/02 A3046 RMK AO2 SLP328 T00610017 (issued 09:52 UTC).