Route profile
CLT→LGA
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Charlotte to New York, 544 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 5% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 15,859 flights. How this is calculated
CLT → LGA arrives on time 72.1% of the time; the return trip, LGA → CLT, arrives on time 80.2% of the time, an 8.1-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
CLT → LGA spends 30.6 minutes on the ground on a 544-mile trip: 23.2 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLT and 7.4 minutes from touchdown to gate at LGA.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
The airline matters unusually much on this route, a wider carrier-to-carrier gap than 98% of 2,692 comparable routes.
Endeavor Air arrived on time 82.1% of the time, against 56.7% for Frontier Airlines, flying the exact same route.
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 2,692 in the comparison.
Why CLT → LGA flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
CLT → LGA cancelled 480 of 15,859 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 33. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 64.2% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 51 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 480 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.
308 cancellations, 64.2% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
102 cancellations, 21.3% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
70 cancellations, 14.6% 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.
480 coded cancellations were recorded on CLT → LGA; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
66 min late
against a median of 3 min early
CLT → LGA 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 15,859 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at LGA after arriving from CLT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 43% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 27% | High risk |
| 60 min | 19% | High risk |
| 90 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 6.9% | 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 3.03% of the time and diverts 0.47% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 15,305 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 15,859 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
CLT → LGA flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 86.3% of the time, against 60.8% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 25.5 percentage points.
By day and hour
On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the departure airport (CLT).
Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 9.2 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 3.3 points.
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On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time
- 40–49
- 50–59
- 60–69
- 70–79
- 80–89
- 90–99
- Fewer than 120 flights, not scored
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.
No slot is named best or worst: too few reach 500 flights. Departures before 7 AM and after 10 PM (580 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.
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| Hour | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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| 7 AM–8 AM | 83.0% on time281 flights | 86.1% on time278 flights | 87.0% on time280 flights | 90.3% on time280 flights | 79.9% on time283 flights | 87.4% on time176 flights | 86.5% on time204 flights |
| 8 AM–9 AM | 30 flights, too few to score | 31 flights, too few to score | 30 flights, too few to score | 33 flights, too few to score | 30 flights, too few to score | 61 flights, too few to score | 56 flights, too few to score |
| 9 AM–10 AM | 75.0% on time246 flights | 81.0% on time244 flights | 86.7% on time244 flights | 82.9% on time248 flights | 78.6% on time245 flights | 111 flights, too few to score | 78.6% on time171 flights |
| 10 AM–11 AM | 116 flights, too few to score | 118 flights, too few to score | 116 flights, too few to score | 106 flights, too few to score | 113 flights, too few to score | 90 flights, too few to score | 77.7% on time124 flights |
| 11 AM–12 PM | 82.9% on time178 flights | 84.6% on time177 flights | 80.1% on time182 flights | 82.2% on time189 flights | 79.3% on time181 flights | 104 flights, too few to score | 75.0% on time166 flights |
| 12 PM–1 PM | 57.7% on time134 flights | 77.1% on time135 flights | 77.7% on time130 flights | 72.1% on time129 flights | 66.2% on time133 flights | 72.5% on time133 flights | 61.2% on time131 flights |
| 1 PM–2 PM | 76.8% on time171 flights | 72.9% on time171 flights | 78.8% on time170 flights | 72.0% on time170 flights | 73.2% on time168 flights | 118 flights, too few to score | 66.5% on time169 flights |
| 2 PM–3 PM | 74.1% on time214 flights | 77.1% on time222 flights | 74.3% on time217 flights | 67.5% on time218 flights | 68.8% on time214 flights | 76.8% on time127 flights | 72.9% on time226 flights |
| 3 PM–4 PM | 48 flights, too few to score | 56 flights, too few to score | 51 flights, too few to score | 51 flights, too few to score | 52 flights, too few to score | 59 flights, too few to score | 47 flights, too few to score |
| 4 PM–5 PM | 60.7% on time202 flights | 64.7% on time195 flights | 69.7% on time198 flights | 62.8% on time193 flights | 64.4% on time197 flights | 112 flights, too few to score | 50.8% on time192 flights |
| 5 PM–6 PM | 55.9% on time174 flights | 63.7% on time175 flights | 68.5% on time165 flights | 59.9% on time169 flights | 60.2% on time173 flights | 68.3% on time130 flights | 57.1% on time174 flights |
| 6 PM–7 PM | 57.1% on time152 flights | 63.6% on time156 flights | 63.8% on time156 flights | 51.4% on time152 flights | 60.0% on time152 flights | 67.4% on time145 flights | 55.3% on time159 flights |
| 7 PM–8 PM | 119 flights, too few to score | 118 flights, too few to score | 69.7% on time121 flights | 116 flights, too few to score | 119 flights, too few to score | 61 flights, too few to score | 98 flights, too few to score |
| 8 PM–9 PM | 114 flights, too few to score | 112 flights, too few to score | 108 flights, too few to score | 107 flights, too few to score | 114 flights, too few to score | 104 flights, too few to score | 48.1% on time139 flights |
| 9 PM–10 PM | 62.4% on time122 flights | 70.7% on time122 flights | 119 flights, too few to score | 118 flights, too few to score | 117 flights, too few to score | 103 flights, too few to score | 51.9% on time121 flights |
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 92.3% on time from 224 flights
- 7 AM: 85.6% on time from 1,782 flights
- 8 AM: 83.0% on time from 271 flights
- 9 AM: 80.4% on time from 1,509 flights
- 10 AM: 78.2% on time from 783 flights
- 11 AM: 80.6% on time from 1,177 flights
- 12 PM: 69.3% on time from 925 flights
- 1 PM: 73.9% on time from 1,137 flights
- 2 PM: 72.8% on time from 1,438 flights
- 3 PM: 68.2% on time from 364 flights
- 4 PM: 63.0% on time from 1,289 flights
- 5 PM: 61.7% on time from 1,160 flights
- 6 PM: 59.7% on time from 1,072 flights
- 7 PM: 63.7% on time from 752 flights
- 8 PM: 59.7% on time from 798 flights
- 9 PM: 63.2% on time from 822 flights
- 10 PM: 70.0% on time from 264 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why CLT → LGA 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 → LGA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on CLT → LGA, at 36.5%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 86.3% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 60.8%.
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 LGA: 4.6 times the normal rate at CLT and 4.1 times at LGA. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: CLT 5.7% against 1.2%, LGA 9.0% against 2.2%. Flights that did leave LGA in bad weather arrived on time 63.6% of the time, against 80.9% in normal hours.
Bad weather and normal hours at the airports
Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026| Departures from | CLT | LGA |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelled in bad weather | 5.7% | 9.0% |
| Cancelled in normal hours | 1.2% | 2.2% |
| Arrived on time, bad weather | 63.5% | 63.6% |
| Arrived on time, normal hours | 75.9% | 80.9% |
| Departures in bad weather | 55,311 | 56,339 |
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. One more carrier flies this route but has too few bad-weather departures from CLT to compare.
This route’s airlines in bad weather at CLT
All departures from CLT| Airline | Bad-weather departures | Cancelled | Other carriers |
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| 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% |
| Frontier Airlines | 812 | 6.7%about level | 6.0% |
These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from CLT and LGA, 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), LGA, 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 |
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| American Airlines | 9,384 | 69.5% | 2.65% | -1 min | 11.5% |
| Endeavor Air | 2,188 | 82.1% | 4.30% | -12 min | 8.7% |
| Republic Airways | 2,011 | 81.3% | 3.28% | -9 min | 8.4% |
| Spirit Airlines | 1,563 | 69.1% | 2.82% | -2 min | 13.7% |
| Frontier Airlines | 713 | 56.7% | 3.79% | 11 min | 19.2% |
American Airlines flew 59.2% of the 15,859 flights listed. Endeavor Air cancelled 4.30% of its flights here against 2.65% for American Airlines.
Endeavor Air arrived on time 25.4 percentage points more often than Frontier 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 this route Charlotte to New York | 15,859 | 72.1% | 3.03% | -3 min | 41 |
| CLT→EWR 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.
AA2068 (2:39 PM) arrived on time 68.4% of the time, 14.8 points more often than AA1060 (6:16 PM) at 53.6%.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 9.3 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 75.6%
- Feb: 77.0%
- Mar: 70.9%
- Apr: 72.4%
- May: 69.5%
- Jun: 63.1%
- Jul: 58.4%
- Aug: 70.1%
- Sep: 81.6%
- Oct: 80.0%
- Nov: 76.8%
- Dec: 72.7%
July is historically the weakest month and September the strongest, a spread of 23.2 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 65.1% from 451 flights
- August 2023: 77.1% from 466 flights
- September 2023: 78.6% from 430 flights
- October 2023: 88.0% from 436 flights
- November 2023: 85.4% from 452 flights
- December 2023: 81.4% from 439 flights
- January 2024: 72.3% from 457 flights
- February 2024: 80.1% from 459 flights
- March 2024: 73.3% from 466 flights
- April 2024: 71.5% from 506 flights
- May 2024: 63.1% from 536 flights
- June 2024: 59.3% from 511 flights
- July 2024: 50.6% from 530 flights
- August 2024: 60.9% from 530 flights
- September 2024: 83.5% from 510 flights
- October 2024: 78.7% from 528 flights
- November 2024: 77.7% from 525 flights
- December 2024: 68.0% from 510 flights
- January 2025: 74.2% from 432 flights
- February 2025: 73.2% from 392 flights
- March 2025: 71.3% from 437 flights
- April 2025: 71.7% from 430 flights
- May 2025: 72.3% from 382 flights
- June 2025: 64.8% from 385 flights
- July 2025: 59.4% from 406 flights
- August 2025: 73.4% from 395 flights
- September 2025: 82.1% from 386 flights
- October 2025: 73.4% from 436 flights
- November 2025: 65.6% from 399 flights
- December 2025: 69.0% from 385 flights
- January 2026: 82.4% from 336 flights
- February 2026: 77.1% from 299 flights
- March 2026: 66.7% from 325 flights
- April 2026: 74.8% from 312 flights
- May 2026: 76.8% from 327 flights
- June 2026: 67.0% from 326 flights
- July 2026: 60.5% from 327 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 72.4% against 71.6% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 15,859 CLT → LGA 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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