Route profile
CLT→JFK
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Charlotte to New York, 541 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 8% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 8,666 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
CLT → JFK arrives on time 73.3% of the time; the return trip, JFK → CLT, arrives on time 82.3% of the time, a 9.0-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
CLT → JFK spends 34.9 minutes on the ground on a 541-mile trip: 23.5 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLT and 11.4 minutes from touchdown to gate at JFK.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where CLT to JFK differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
CLT to JFK struggles most at 12 PM: 66.2% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 15.5 points behind the 81.7% on routes of similar length at the same hour. Against all other routes the gap is 13.2 points.
Saturday is the day CLT to JFK slips furthest against routes of similar length, 70.6% on time where they average 80.0%, 9.4 points lower. Against all other routes the gap is 8.5 points.
In March, CLT to JFK runs 11.3 points below routes of similar length, 67.5% on time to 78.8%. Against all other routes the gap is 10.4 points.
Endeavor Air’s flights on CLT to JFK arrive on time 79.3% of the time, 5.3 points below the 84.6% it manages on its routes of similar length. Against all other routes the gap is 5 points.
CLT to JFK against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 12 PM departures | 66.2% | routes of similar length | 81.7% | −15.5 pts | 136 here, 91,011 there |
| Weekday: Saturday | 70.6% | routes of similar length | 80.0% | −9.4 pts | 1,173 here, 204,575 there |
| Month: March | 67.5% | routes of similar length | 78.8% | −11.3 pts | 593 here, 135,994 there |
| Airline: Endeavor Air | 79.3% | routes of similar length | 84.6% | −5.3 pts | 1,973 here, 15,452 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 541 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
Why CLT → JFK flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
CLT → JFK cancelled 224 of 8,666 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 39. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 58.5% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 66 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 224 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.
131 cancellations, 58.5% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
73 cancellations, 32.6% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
20 cancellations, 8.9% 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.
224 coded cancellations were recorded on CLT → JFK; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
66 min late
against a median of 3 min early
CLT → JFK has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 3 min early, but the worst tenth are 69 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 8,666 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at JFK after arriving from CLT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 43% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 26% | High risk |
| 60 min | 18% | High risk |
| 90 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 7.1% | 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 2.58% of the time and diverts 0.18% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 8,426 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 66 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 8,666 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
CLT → JFK flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 88.2% of the time, against 62.0% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 26.2 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 90.9% on time from 525 flights
- 7 AM: 88.1% on time from 269 flights
- 8 AM: 86.6% on time from 863 flights
- 9 AM: too few flights to score
- 10 AM: 81.0% on time from 491 flights
- 11 AM: 77.3% on time from 536 flights
- 12 PM: 66.2% on time from 142 flights
- 1 PM: 79.8% on time from 1,173 flights
- 2 PM: 77.1% on time from 468 flights
- 3 PM: too few flights to score
- 4 PM: 67.4% on time from 1,031 flights
- 5 PM: 59.4% on time from 667 flights
- 6 PM: 65.8% on time from 798 flights
- 7 PM: 65.7% on time from 506 flights
- 8 PM: 57.2% on time from 1,006 flights
- 9 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why CLT → JFK runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
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 → JFK. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on CLT → JFK, at 36.0%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 88.2% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 62.0%.
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 | 5,783 | 69.9% | 1.80% | 0 min | 12.0% |
| Endeavor Air | 2,066 | 79.3% | 4.40% | -9 min | 9.0% |
| Republic Airways | 809 | 82.4% | 3.58% | -8 min | 8.8% |
American Airlines flew 66.8% of the 8,658 flights listed. Endeavor Air cancelled 4.40% of its flights here against 1.80% for American Airlines.
Republic Airways arrived on time 12.5 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→JFK this route Charlotte to New York | 8,666 | 73.3% | 2.58% | -3 min | 45 |
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Thursday the least, a gap of 8.5 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 74.2%
- Feb: 76.5%
- Mar: 67.5%
- Apr: 73.9%
- May: 68.6%
- Jun: 62.8%
- Jul: 62.6%
- Aug: 68.6%
- Sep: 79.5%
- Oct: 83.6%
- Nov: 82.5%
- Dec: 75.0%
July is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 21.0 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 66.4% from 297 flights
- August 2023: 74.1% from 322 flights
- September 2023: 75.6% from 328 flights
- October 2023: 88.2% from 314 flights
- November 2023: 85.1% from 296 flights
- December 2023: 84.6% from 287 flights
- January 2024: 72.0% from 264 flights
- February 2024: 81.5% from 246 flights
- March 2024: 66.1% from 248 flights
- April 2024: 75.3% from 283 flights
- May 2024: 66.7% from 308 flights
- June 2024: 65.7% from 298 flights
- July 2024: 59.0% from 307 flights
- August 2024: 66.2% from 336 flights
- September 2024: 82.5% from 357 flights
- October 2024: 85.8% from 373 flights
- November 2024: 83.8% from 303 flights
- December 2024: 71.7% from 273 flights
- January 2025: 75.4% from 182 flights
- February 2025: 76.4% from 164 flights
- March 2025: 69.7% from 204 flights
- April 2025: 72.5% from 167 flights
- May 2025: 62.4% from 151 flights
- June 2025: 55.2% from 172 flights
- July 2025: 57.3% from 182 flights
- August 2025: 62.2% from 157 flights
- September 2025: 80.3% from 205 flights
- October 2025: 73.0% from 218 flights
- November 2025: 75.9% from 177 flights
- December 2025: 63.6% from 168 flights
- January 2026: 76.7% from 152 flights
- February 2026: 66.9% from 137 flights
- March 2026: 66.7% from 151 flights
- April 2026: 73.2% from 149 flights
- May 2026: 77.0% from 180 flights
- June 2026: 65.6% from 156 flights
- July 2026: 69.2% from 154 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 71.3% against 73.5% in the 12 months before — declining by 2.2 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 8,666 CLT → JFK 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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