Route profile
CLT→PVD
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Charlotte to Providence/Warwick, 683 miles.
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Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 29% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 4,616 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
CLT → PVD arrives on time 76.1% of the time; the return trip, PVD → CLT, arrives on time 80.3% of the time, a 4.2-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
CLT → PVD spends 23.1 minutes on the ground on a 683-mile trip: 18.2 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLT and 4.9 minutes from touchdown to gate at PVD.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where CLT to PVD differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
CLT to PVD is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 3 PM: 82.2% arrive on time, 9.1 points ahead of the 73.1% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 9.5 points.
In August, CLT to PVD runs 4.9 points below routes of similar length, 71.4% on time to 76.3%. Against all other routes the gap is 5.1 points.
CLT to PVD against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 3 PM departures | 82.2% | routes of similar length | 73.1% | +9.1 pts | 129 here, 131,132 there |
| Month: August | 71.4% | routes of similar length | 76.3% | −4.9 pts | 413 here, 187,219 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 683 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 PVD in context
This route against CLT and PVD as a whole, against similar routes from CLT, and against its own first year, July 2023 – July 2026.
CLT to PVD arrived on time 79.3% of the time in its latest twelve months (August 2025 to July 2026), 4.9 points above the 74.4% of its first twelve (July 2023 to June 2024).
Cancellations rose from 0.99% of scheduled flights (14 of 1,421) in the first twelve months to 2.26% (33 of 1,460) in the latest twelve.
Of the 4,380 flights scheduled in hours with at least 120 flights, 7 AM is the busiest hour with 818 (18.7%), 89.5% of them on time, and 1 PM the quietest with 130 (3.0%), 79.1% 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 → PVD flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
CLT → PVD cancelled 77 of 4,616 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 60. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 92.2% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 65 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 77 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.
71 cancellations, 92.2% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
5 cancellations, 6.5% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
1 cancellation, 1.3% 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.
77 coded cancellations were recorded on CLT → PVD; 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 4,616 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at PVD after arriving from CLT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 40% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 23% | High risk |
| 60 min | 16% | High risk |
| 90 min | 8.7% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 5.2% | 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 1.67% of the time and diverts 0.17% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 4,531 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 4,616 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
CLT → PVD flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 89.0% of the time, against 66.0% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 23.0 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 6 AM: too few flights to score
- 7 AM: 89.5% on time from 818 flights
- 8 AM: 87.1% on time from 180 flights
- 9 AM to 10 AM: too few flights to score
- 11 AM: 78.9% on time from 523 flights
- 12 PM: 76.8% on time from 238 flights
- 1 PM: 79.1% on time from 130 flights
- 2 PM: 74.1% on time from 689 flights
- 3 PM: 82.2% on time from 132 flights
- 4 PM: 71.1% on time from 355 flights
- 5 PM to 6 PM: too few flights to score
- 7 PM: 65.6% on time from 249 flights
- 8 PM: 66.3% on time from 337 flights
- 9 PM: 67.7% on time from 164 flights
- 10 PM: 66.5% on time from 565 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why CLT → PVD 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 → PVD. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on CLT → PVD, at 51.0%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 89.0% 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 | 4,115 | 75.1% | 1.53% | -4 min | 9.3% |
| PSA Airlines | 501 | 84.2% | 2.79% | -7 min | 5.1% |
American Airlines flew 89.1% of the 4,616 flights listed. PSA Airlines cancelled 2.79% of its flights here against 1.53% for American Airlines.
PSA Airlines arrived on time 9.1 percentage points more often than American 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2566 American Airlines | 10:29 PM | 609 | 70.7% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 8.2 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 77.6%
- Feb: 79.5%
- Mar: 81.7%
- Apr: 79.5%
- May: 70.2%
- Jun: 69.0%
- Jul: 64.2%
- Aug: 71.4%
- Sep: 81.7%
- Oct: 82.8%
- Nov: 84.4%
- Dec: 78.9%
July is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 20.2 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 72.9% from 121 flights
- August 2023: 76.9% from 124 flights
- September 2023: too few flights to score (105)
- October 2023: too few flights to score (118)
- November 2023: too few flights to score (114)
- December 2023: too few flights to score (113)
- January 2024: too few flights to score (98)
- February 2024: too few flights to score (87)
- March 2024: too few flights to score (94)
- April 2024: 75.0% from 144 flights
- May 2024: 55.3% from 153 flights
- June 2024: 66.2% from 150 flights
- July 2024: 50.0% from 152 flights
- August 2024: 70.1% from 150 flights
- September 2024: 79.7% from 137 flights
- October 2024: 82.2% from 147 flights
- November 2024: 82.7% from 127 flights
- December 2024: 82.2% from 146 flights
- January 2025: too few flights to score (115)
- February 2025: too few flights to score (104)
- March 2025: 82.2% from 122 flights
- April 2025: 82.4% from 120 flights
- May 2025: too few flights to score (119)
- June 2025: 67.9% from 146 flights
- July 2025: 61.7% from 150 flights
- August 2025: 68.3% from 148 flights
- September 2025: 83.6% from 129 flights
- October 2025: 83.9% from 149 flights
- November 2025: 85.5% from 125 flights
- December 2025: 77.6% from 125 flights
- January 2026: too few flights to score (98)
- February 2026: too few flights to score (99)
- March 2026: too few flights to score (118)
- April 2026: too few flights to score (112)
- May 2026: too few flights to score (116)
- June 2026: 73.7% from 120 flights
- July 2026: 76.7% from 121 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 79.3% against 77.2% in the 12 months before — improving by 2.1 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 4,616 CLT → PVD 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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