Route profile
CLT→EWR
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Charlotte to Newark, 529 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 2% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 11,643 flights. How this is calculated
CLT → EWR arrives on time 71.3% of the time; the return trip, EWR → CLT, arrives on time 78.5% of the time, a 7.2-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
CLT → EWR spends 34.1 minutes on the ground on a 529-mile trip: 24.4 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLT and 9.8 minutes from touchdown to gate at EWR.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
This route's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 96% of 4,598 comparable routes.
A typical arrival is 4 min early, but the worst tenth run 79 minutes worse than that.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 4,598 in the comparison.
Why CLT → EWR flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
CLT → EWR cancelled 397 of 11,643 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 29. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 69.5% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 42 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 397 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
276 cancellations, 69.5% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
77 cancellations, 19.4% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
44 cancellations, 11.1% of the total.
A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.
0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.
Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
397 coded cancellations were recorded on CLT → EWR; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
75 min late
against a median of 4 min early
CLT → EWR has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 4 min early, but the worst tenth are 79 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 11,643 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at EWR after arriving from CLT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 43% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 28% | High risk |
| 60 min | 20% | High risk |
| 90 min | 12% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 8.2% | Some risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 3.41% of the time and diverts 0.31% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 11,210 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 75 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 11,643 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
CLT → EWR flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 86.4% of the time, against 54.0% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 32.4 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 92.3% on time from 426 flights
- 7 AM: 85.7% on time from 1,654 flights
- 8 AM: 80.7% on time from 290 flights
- 9 AM: 86.0% on time from 244 flights
- 10 AM: 84.5% on time from 445 flights
- 11 AM: 82.2% on time from 1,681 flights
- 12 PM: 87.5% on time from 190 flights
- 1 PM: 75.5% on time from 514 flights
- 2 PM: 67.3% on time from 1,355 flights
- 3 PM: 72.1% on time from 247 flights
- 4 PM: 58.2% on time from 800 flights
- 5 PM: 54.8% on time from 372 flights
- 6 PM: 58.2% on time from 1,610 flights
- 7 PM: 45.7% on time from 333 flights
- 8 PM: 58.7% on time from 1,126 flights
- 9 PM: 55.6% on time from 265 flights
- 10 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why CLT → EWR runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for CLT → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
How this route holds up in bad weather
July 2023 – July 2026
Bad weather raises cancellations by a similar amount at both ends of CLT to EWR: 4.6 times the normal rate at CLT and 3.3 times at EWR. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: CLT 5.7% against 1.2%, EWR 6.9% against 2.1%. Flights that did leave EWR in bad weather arrived on time 65.8% of the time, against 80.0% in normal hours.
Bad weather and normal hours at the airports
Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026| Departures from | CLT | EWR |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelled in bad weather | 5.7% | 6.9% |
| Cancelled in normal hours | 1.2% | 2.1% |
| Arrived on time, bad weather | 63.5% | 65.8% |
| Arrived on time, normal hours | 75.9% | 80.0% |
| Departures in bad weather | 55,311 | 51,613 |
United Airlines (2.7% cancelled against 5.3% for the other carriers at CLT) and American Airlines (5.3% cancelled against 6.4% for the other carriers at CLT) cancelled fewer departures from CLT in bad weather than the other carriers there did in the same months. None of the route’s other carriers was clearly worse.
This route’s airlines in bad weather at CLT
All departures from CLT| Airline | Bad-weather departures | Cancelled | Other carriers |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 1,105 | 2.7%below the others | 5.3% |
| Republic Airways | 947 | 5.1%about level | 6.3% |
| American Airlines | 33,044 | 5.3%below the others | 6.4% |
| Spirit Airlines | 1,090 | 6.1%about level | 5.7% |
These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from CLT and EWR, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from CLT on every route.
Weather source and limits. In full: CLT (airlines), EWR, What Weather Costs Each Airport, Who Cancels More When the Weather Turns, Airports That Change Places When Weather Turns.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 5,978 | 66.1% | 3.16% | 1 min | 14.1% |
| United Airlines | 3,463 | 76.1% | 2.43% | -8 min | 11.4% |
| Republic Airways | 1,364 | 82.6% | 6.16% | -12 min | 7.9% |
| Spirit Airlines | 838 | 71.2% | 4.77% | -4 min | 13.5% |
American Airlines flew 51.3% of the 11,643 flights listed. Republic Airways cancelled 6.16% of its flights here against 2.43% for United Airlines.
Republic Airways arrived on time 16.5 percentage points more often than American Airlines on this route.
Other ways to fly Charlotte to New York
Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.
| Route | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLT→LGA Charlotte to New York | 15,859 | 72.1% | 3.03% | -3 min | 41 |
| CLT→EWR this route Charlotte to Newark | 11,643 | 71.3% | 3.41% | -4 min | 36 |
CLT → LGA is the most reliable pairing for this journey at 72.1% on time, against 71.3% for CLT → EWR.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2794 American Airlines | 8:35 PM | 1,063 | 55.6% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 10.5 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 79.1%
- Feb: 80.8%
- Mar: 75.4%
- Apr: 69.1%
- May: 63.7%
- Jun: 66.1%
- Jul: 57.6%
- Aug: 68.7%
- Sep: 77.8%
- Oct: 80.4%
- Nov: 71.3%
- Dec: 70.1%
July is historically the weakest month and February the strongest, a spread of 23.2 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 55.9% from 376 flights
- August 2023: 74.4% from 378 flights
- September 2023: 76.2% from 329 flights
- October 2023: 90.3% from 298 flights
- November 2023: 85.5% from 276 flights
- December 2023: 81.2% from 272 flights
- January 2024: 74.8% from 289 flights
- February 2024: 88.4% from 279 flights
- March 2024: 74.3% from 290 flights
- April 2024: 71.9% from 337 flights
- May 2024: 64.3% from 365 flights
- June 2024: 58.9% from 351 flights
- July 2024: 50.0% from 356 flights
- August 2024: 63.5% from 346 flights
- September 2024: 75.1% from 331 flights
- October 2024: 79.1% from 348 flights
- November 2024: 58.2% from 292 flights
- December 2024: 63.3% from 309 flights
- January 2025: 77.4% from 320 flights
- February 2025: 77.4% from 291 flights
- March 2025: 77.6% from 337 flights
- April 2025: 58.1% from 279 flights
- May 2025: 38.3% from 263 flights
- June 2025: 62.3% from 297 flights
- July 2025: 58.8% from 323 flights
- August 2025: 67.0% from 306 flights
- September 2025: 82.9% from 279 flights
- October 2025: 72.7% from 324 flights
- November 2025: 71.2% from 339 flights
- December 2025: 67.3% from 318 flights
- January 2026: 84.5% from 340 flights
- February 2026: 76.8% from 318 flights
- March 2026: 74.1% from 359 flights
- April 2026: 76.2% from 305 flights
- May 2026: 86.0% from 273 flights
- June 2026: 78.9% from 271 flights
- July 2026: 68.6% from 279 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 75.4% against 66.4% in the 12 months before — improving by 9.0 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 11,643 CLT → EWR flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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