Route profile
CLT→LAS
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Charlotte to Las Vegas, 1,916 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 42% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 7,634 flights. How this is calculated
CLT → LAS arrives on time 76.0% of the time; the return trip, LAS → CLT, arrives on time 82.0% of the time, a 6.0-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
CLT → LAS spends 27.1 minutes on the ground on a 1,916-mile trip: 18.9 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLT and 8.2 minutes from touchdown to gate at LAS.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where CLT to LAS differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
CLT to LAS struggles most at 6 PM: 64.1% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 6 points behind the 70.1% on routes of similar length at the same hour.
CLT to LAS is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 9 AM: 87.1% arrive on time, 5.2 points ahead of the 81.9% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 2.8 points.
Saturday is the day CLT to LAS slips furthest against routes of similar length, 74.9% on time where they average 79.1%, 4.2 points lower. Against all other routes the gap is 4.2 points.
In July, CLT to LAS runs 9.2 points below routes of similar length, 61.4% on time to 70.6%. Against all other routes the gap is 8.3 points.
December is kinder to CLT to LAS than to routes of similar length: 84.1% on time against 79.9%, 4.2 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 5.3 points.
CLT to LAS against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 6 PM departures | 64.1% | routes of similar length | 70.1% | −6.0 pts | 418 here, 56,908 there |
| Hour: 9 AM departures | 87.1% | routes of similar length | 81.9% | +5.2 pts | 751 here, 71,511 there |
| Weekday: Saturday | 74.9% | routes of similar length | 79.1% | −4.2 pts | 1,056 here, 151,116 there |
| Month: July | 61.4% | routes of similar length | 70.6% | −9.2 pts | 889 here, 132,447 there |
| Month: December | 84.1% | routes of similar length | 79.9% | +4.2 pts | 591 here, 86,380 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 1,916 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 → LAS flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
CLT → LAS cancelled 80 of 7,634 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 95. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 82.5% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 116 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 80 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.
66 cancellations, 82.5% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
14 cancellations, 17.5% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
0 cancellations, 0.0% 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.
80 coded cancellations were recorded on CLT → LAS; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
48 min late
against a median of 4 min early
Percentiles over 7,634 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at LAS after arriving from CLT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 41% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 23% | High risk |
| 60 min | 15% | High risk |
| 90 min | 7.9% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 4.3% | Low 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 1.05% of the time and diverts 0.22% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 7,537 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 48 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 7,634 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
CLT → LAS flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 84.4% of the time, against 66.0% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 18.4 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 6 AM: too few flights to score
- 7 AM: 85.9% on time from 1,044 flights
- 8 AM: 81.8% on time from 445 flights
- 9 AM: 87.1% on time from 758 flights
- 10 AM: too few flights to score
- 11 AM: 81.2% on time from 970 flights
- 12 PM: too few flights to score
- 1 PM: 73.6% on time from 125 flights
- 2 PM: 75.5% on time from 390 flights
- 3 PM: 70.1% on time from 544 flights
- 4 PM: 69.7% on time from 676 flights
- 5 PM: 73.2% on time from 346 flights
- 6 PM: 64.1% on time from 431 flights
- 7 PM: 65.6% on time from 592 flights
- 8 PM: 67.2% on time from 967 flights
- 9 PM: 80.0% on time from 122 flights
- 10 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why CLT → LAS runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow 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 → LAS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on CLT → LAS, at 43.6%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 84.4% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 66.0%.
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 | 6,772 | 75.9% | 0.92% | -5 min | 8.0% |
| Spirit Airlines | 630 | 78.6% | 1.59% | -3 min | 6.6% |
| Frontier Airlines | 232 | 71.3% | 3.45% | -4 min | 13.0% |
American Airlines flew 88.7% of the 7,634 flights listed. Frontier Airlines cancelled 3.45% of its flights here against 0.92% for American Airlines.
Spirit Airlines arrived on time 7.3 percentage points more often than Frontier Airlines on this route.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA750 American Airlines | 3:05 PM | 805 | 70.6% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 7.7 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 78.2%
- Feb: 76.8%
- Mar: 80.8%
- Apr: 78.8%
- May: 73.3%
- Jun: 76.3%
- Jul: 61.4%
- Aug: 70.0%
- Sep: 74.3%
- Oct: 84.3%
- Nov: 80.9%
- Dec: 84.1%
July is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 22.9 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 57.9% from 269 flights
- August 2023: 60.7% from 278 flights
- September 2023: 66.0% from 243 flights
- October 2023: 82.7% from 268 flights
- November 2023: 82.7% from 255 flights
- December 2023: 86.5% from 225 flights
- January 2024: 68.6% from 205 flights
- February 2024: 78.0% from 201 flights
- March 2024: 81.7% from 233 flights
- April 2024: 84.0% from 213 flights
- May 2024: 57.8% from 212 flights
- June 2024: 78.8% from 224 flights
- July 2024: 52.9% from 228 flights
- August 2024: 74.4% from 239 flights
- September 2024: 77.4% from 213 flights
- October 2024: 86.0% from 228 flights
- November 2024: 78.9% from 199 flights
- December 2024: 80.4% from 184 flights
- January 2025: 84.3% from 181 flights
- February 2025: 76.5% from 180 flights
- March 2025: 77.1% from 188 flights
- April 2025: 75.8% from 211 flights
- May 2025: 80.2% from 218 flights
- June 2025: 76.6% from 221 flights
- July 2025: 72.4% from 231 flights
- August 2025: 78.5% from 174 flights
- September 2025: 82.5% from 166 flights
- October 2025: 84.5% from 194 flights
- November 2025: 80.4% from 168 flights
- December 2025: 84.9% from 185 flights
- January 2026: 85.0% from 150 flights
- February 2026: 75.4% from 145 flights
- March 2026: 83.4% from 176 flights
- April 2026: 76.0% from 175 flights
- May 2026: 82.7% from 192 flights
- June 2026: 72.8% from 180 flights
- July 2026: 63.2% from 182 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 79.1% against 78.2% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 7,634 CLT → LAS 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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