Route profile
CLT→MYR
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Charlotte to Myrtle Beach, 157 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 30% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 7,547 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
CLT → MYR arrives on time 76.7% of the time; the return trip, MYR → CLT, arrives on time 82.4% of the time, a 5.7-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
CLT → MYR spends 26.7 minutes on the ground on a 157-mile trip: 21.8 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLT and 4.9 minutes from touchdown to gate at MYR.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where CLT to MYR differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
CLT to MYR is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 5 PM: 79.7% arrive on time, 8.6 points ahead of the 71.1% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 9.9 points.
CLT to MYR struggles most at 11 AM: 79.3% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 7.3 points behind the 86.6% on routes of similar length at the same hour.
Saturday is the day CLT to MYR slips furthest against routes of similar length, 75.7% on time where they average 80.9%, 5.2 points lower. Against all other routes the gap is 3.4 points.
In July, CLT to MYR runs 6.3 points below routes of similar length, 65.7% on time to 72.0%. Against all other routes the gap is 4 points.
American Airlines’ flights on CLT to MYR arrive on time 72.5% of the time, 5.3 points below the 77.8% it manages on its routes of similar length. Against all other routes the gap is 2.6 points.
CLT to MYR against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 5 PM departures | 79.7% | routes of similar length | 71.1% | +8.6 pts | 133 here, 4,243 there |
| Hour: 11 AM departures | 79.3% | routes of similar length | 86.6% | −7.3 pts | 569 here, 4,363 there |
| Weekday: Saturday | 75.7% | routes of similar length | 80.9% | −5.2 pts | 1,025 here, 12,575 there |
| Month: July | 65.7% | routes of similar length | 72.0% | −6.3 pts | 787 here, 10,243 there |
| Airline: American Airlines | 72.5% | routes of similar length | 77.8% | −5.3 pts | 3,392 here, 18,023 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 157 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.
CLT to MYR in context
This route against CLT and MYR as a whole, against similar routes from CLT, and against its own first year, July 2023 – July 2026.
Arriving at MYR, CLT to MYR is on time 76.7% of the time, 2.3 points worse than the airport’s other arrivals at MYR (79.0%, from 37,119 flights).
CLT to MYR arrived on time 77.2% of the time in its latest twelve months (August 2025 to July 2026), 2.7 points below the 79.9% of its first twelve (July 2023 to June 2024).
Cancellations rose from 0.76% of scheduled flights (19 of 2,490) in the first twelve months to 1.86% (42 of 2,257) in the latest twelve.
Of the 7,322 flights scheduled in hours with at least 120 flights, 1 PM is the busiest hour with 891 (12.2%), 79.9% of them on time, and 12 PM the quietest with 127 (1.7%), 88.5% of them on time.
Airport comparisons take this route’s flights out of the airport total. Length means within 15% of this route’s distance, with at least 3 other routes from the same origin. On-time gaps are stated at 2 points and 2 standard errors, cancellation gaps at 0.5 points and 2 standard errors, and every group needs 750 flights. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
Why CLT → MYR flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
CLT → MYR cancelled 140 of 7,547 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 54. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 87.1% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 62 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 140 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.
122 cancellations, 87.1% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
13 cancellations, 9.3% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
5 cancellations, 3.6% 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. With only one or two carriers on the route, the split mostly reflects how they file. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
140 coded cancellations were recorded on CLT → MYR; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
52 min late
against a median of 4 min early
Percentiles over 7,547 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at MYR after arriving from CLT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 40% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 23% | High risk |
| 60 min | 15% | High risk |
| 90 min | 8.5% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 5.3% | 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 1.86% of the time and diverts 0.15% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 7,396 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 52 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 7,547 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
CLT → MYR flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 87.2% of the time, against 69.5% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 17.7 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 6 AM: too few flights to score
- 7 AM: 87.4% on time from 696 flights
- 8 AM: 86.5% on time from 204 flights
- 9 AM: 88.2% on time from 667 flights
- 10 AM: too few flights to score
- 11 AM: 79.3% on time from 581 flights
- 12 PM: 88.5% on time from 127 flights
- 1 PM: 79.9% on time from 891 flights
- 2 PM: 74.3% on time from 400 flights
- 3 PM: too few flights to score
- 4 PM: 71.4% on time from 874 flights
- 5 PM: 79.7% on time from 137 flights
- 6 PM: 66.3% on time from 855 flights
- 7 PM: 79.5% on time from 139 flights
- 8 PM: 72.6% on time from 455 flights
- 9 PM: 69.0% on time from 479 flights
- 10 PM: 70.4% on time from 817 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why CLT → MYR 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 → MYR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on CLT → MYR, at 51.3%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 87.2% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 69.5%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 4,010 | 80.0% | 2.27% | -5 min | 6.6% |
| American Airlines | 3,443 | 72.5% | 1.31% | -2 min | 11.1% |
PSA Airlines flew 53.8% of the 7,453 flights listed.
PSA Airlines arrived on time 7.5 percentage points more often than American Airlines on this route.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 7.1 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 82.8%
- Feb: 79.0%
- Mar: 73.6%
- Apr: 76.9%
- May: 73.8%
- Jun: 70.5%
- Jul: 65.7%
- Aug: 73.7%
- Sep: 81.7%
- Oct: 84.0%
- Nov: 85.2%
- Dec: 75.9%
July is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 19.5 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 71.4% from 239 flights
- August 2023: 79.9% from 245 flights
- September 2023: 84.2% from 203 flights
- October 2023: 92.3% from 209 flights
- November 2023: 87.8% from 205 flights
- December 2023: 91.3% from 161 flights
- January 2024: 76.6% from 188 flights
- February 2024: 87.0% from 193 flights
- March 2024: 82.8% from 209 flights
- April 2024: 73.0% from 200 flights
- May 2024: 66.5% from 204 flights
- June 2024: 70.7% from 234 flights
- July 2024: 63.8% from 245 flights
- August 2024: 69.7% from 261 flights
- September 2024: 79.6% from 234 flights
- October 2024: 80.9% from 262 flights
- November 2024: 85.3% from 190 flights
- December 2024: 68.6% from 204 flights
- January 2025: 85.9% from 215 flights
- February 2025: 70.6% from 196 flights
- March 2025: 67.8% from 215 flights
- April 2025: 76.0% from 210 flights
- May 2025: 72.1% from 217 flights
- June 2025: 63.8% from 180 flights
- July 2025: 68.4% from 171 flights
- August 2025: 71.1% from 195 flights
- September 2025: 81.7% from 213 flights
- October 2025: 80.1% from 232 flights
- November 2025: 82.6% from 204 flights
- December 2025: 70.6% from 181 flights
- January 2026: 85.6% from 212 flights
- February 2026: 78.7% from 172 flights
- March 2026: 69.6% from 185 flights
- April 2026: 82.5% from 177 flights
- May 2026: 83.7% from 184 flights
- June 2026: 77.9% from 150 flights
- July 2026: 56.7% from 152 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 77.2% against 74.3% in the 12 months before — improving by 2.9 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 7,547 CLT → MYR 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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