Route profile
CLT→RSW
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Charlotte to Fort Myers, 600 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 33% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 5,929 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
CLT → RSW arrives on time 75.5% of the time; the return trip, RSW → CLT, arrives on time 82.8% of the time, a 7.3-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
CLT → RSW spends 23.3 minutes on the ground on a 600-mile trip: 18.2 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLT and 5.2 minutes from touchdown to gate at RSW.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where CLT to RSW differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
CLT to RSW is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 9 PM: 75.7% arrive on time, 8.5 points ahead of the 67.2% those routes manage at that hour.
CLT to RSW struggles most at 10 PM: 61.9% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 7 points behind the 68.9% on routes of similar length at the same hour. Against all other routes the gap is 9.8 points.
Saturday is the day CLT to RSW slips furthest against routes of similar length, 73.3% on time where they average 79.5%, 6.2 points lower. Against all other routes the gap is 5.8 points.
In July, CLT to RSW runs 9 points below routes of similar length, 60.4% on time to 69.4%. Against all other routes the gap is 9.3 points.
CLT to RSW against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 9 PM departures | 75.7% | routes of similar length | 67.2% | +8.5 pts | 210 here, 66,347 there |
| Hour: 10 PM departures | 61.9% | routes of similar length | 68.9% | −7.0 pts | 452 here, 49,706 there |
| Weekday: Saturday | 73.3% | routes of similar length | 79.5% | −6.2 pts | 803 here, 248,505 there |
| Month: July | 60.4% | routes of similar length | 69.4% | −9.0 pts | 460 here, 224,610 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 600 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 → RSW flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
CLT → RSW cancelled 96 of 5,929 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 62. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 84.4% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 73 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 96 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.
81 cancellations, 84.4% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
13 cancellations, 13.5% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
2 cancellations, 2.1% 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.
96 coded cancellations were recorded on CLT → RSW; 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 5,929 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at RSW after arriving from CLT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 41% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 24% | High risk |
| 60 min | 15% | High risk |
| 90 min | 7.8% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 4.4% | 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 1.62% of the time and diverts 0.25% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 5,818 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 5,929 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
CLT → RSW flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 86.7% of the time, against 66.4% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 20.3 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 6 AM: too few flights to score
- 7 AM: 87.2% on time from 664 flights
- 8 AM: 85.9% on time from 414 flights
- 9 AM: 81.9% on time from 453 flights
- 10 AM: too few flights to score
- 11 AM: 80.7% on time from 611 flights
- 12 PM: too few flights to score
- 1 PM: 71.9% on time from 676 flights
- 2 PM: 73.4% on time from 359 flights
- 3 PM: too few flights to score
- 4 PM: 67.8% on time from 877 flights
- 5 PM: too few flights to score
- 6 PM: 71.5% on time from 293 flights
- 7 PM: 75.8% on time from 132 flights
- 8 PM: 64.2% on time from 367 flights
- 9 PM: 75.7% on time from 222 flights
- 10 PM: 61.9% on time from 471 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why CLT → RSW 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 → RSW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on CLT → RSW, at 53.2%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 86.7% of the time and 9 PM–5 AM departures 66.4%.
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 | 5,879 | 75.4% | 1.62% | -3 min | 7.9% |
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1176 American Airlines | 9:40 PM | 946 | 69.4% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 8.9 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 79.9%
- Feb: 81.5%
- Mar: 72.3%
- Apr: 79.1%
- May: 72.7%
- Jun: 64.5%
- Jul: 60.4%
- Aug: 68.0%
- Sep: 81.5%
- Oct: 83.2%
- Nov: 83.9%
- Dec: 75.0%
July is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 23.5 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: too few flights to score (119)
- August 2023: 60.5% from 123 flights
- September 2023: too few flights to score (104)
- October 2023: 89.0% from 145 flights
- November 2023: 82.1% from 196 flights
- December 2023: 79.6% from 197 flights
- January 2024: 73.5% from 204 flights
- February 2024: 82.8% from 199 flights
- March 2024: 65.6% from 217 flights
- April 2024: 75.7% from 205 flights
- May 2024: 60.8% from 190 flights
- June 2024: 59.8% from 128 flights
- July 2024: 48.7% from 121 flights
- August 2024: too few flights to score (119)
- September 2024: too few flights to score (108)
- October 2024: 78.9% from 139 flights
- November 2024: 87.3% from 173 flights
- December 2024: 71.7% from 201 flights
- January 2025: 85.0% from 185 flights
- February 2025: 79.9% from 171 flights
- March 2025: 76.3% from 238 flights
- April 2025: 81.8% from 231 flights
- May 2025: 78.4% from 190 flights
- June 2025: 60.8% from 128 flights
- July 2025: 62.1% from 121 flights
- August 2025: too few flights to score (119)
- September 2025: too few flights to score (112)
- October 2025: 80.8% from 121 flights
- November 2025: 82.5% from 155 flights
- December 2025: 73.7% from 167 flights
- January 2026: 82.1% from 186 flights
- February 2026: 81.6% from 161 flights
- March 2026: 75.3% from 177 flights
- April 2026: 79.3% from 193 flights
- May 2026: 79.8% from 163 flights
- June 2026: too few flights to score (110)
- July 2026: too few flights to score (113)
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 78.5% against 76.6% in the 12 months before — improving by 1.9 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 5,929 CLT → RSW 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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