Route profile
EWR→CLT
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Newark to Charlotte, 529 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 15% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 11,646 flights. How this is calculated
EWR → CLT arrives on time 78.5% of the time; the return trip, CLT → EWR, arrives on time 71.3% of the time, a 7.2-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
EWR → CLT spends 34.0 minutes on the ground on a 529-mile trip: 23.3 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at EWR and 10.6 minutes from touchdown to gate at CLT.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Why EWR → CLT flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
EWR → CLT cancelled 356 of 11,646 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 33. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 72.8% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 45 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 356 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.
259 cancellations, 72.8% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
67 cancellations, 18.8% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
30 cancellations, 8.4% 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.
356 coded cancellations were recorded on EWR → CLT; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
57 min late
against a median of 10 min early
EWR → CLT has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 10 min early, but the worst tenth are 67 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 11,646 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at CLT after arriving from EWR.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 33% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 21% | High risk |
| 60 min | 15% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 9.5% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 6.4% | 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 3.06% 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 11,272 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 57 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 11,646 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
EWR → CLT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 90.4% of the time, against 62.3% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 28.1 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 4 AM: too few flights to score
- 5 AM: 92.4% on time from 713 flights
- 6 AM: 92.6% on time from 1,212 flights
- 7 AM: 90.0% on time from 994 flights
- 8 AM: 84.9% on time from 693 flights
- 9 AM: 84.9% on time from 846 flights
- 10 AM: 87.5% on time from 678 flights
- 11 AM: 85.0% on time from 515 flights
- 12 PM: 79.6% on time from 204 flights
- 1 PM: 79.2% on time from 978 flights
- 2 PM: 77.7% on time from 1,116 flights
- 3 PM: 75.5% on time from 168 flights
- 4 PM: 64.2% on time from 388 flights
- 5 PM: 59.8% on time from 963 flights
- 6 PM: 68.4% on time from 361 flights
- 7 PM: 61.2% on time from 1,466 flights
- 8 PM: too few flights to score
- 9 PM: 65.6% on time from 148 flights
- 10 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why EWR → CLT 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 EWR → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on EWR → CLT, at 47.5%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 90.4% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 62.3%.
How this route holds up in bad weather
July 2023 – July 2026
Bad weather raises cancellations by a similar amount at both ends of EWR to CLT: 3.3 times the normal rate at EWR and 4.6 times at CLT. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: EWR 6.9% against 2.1%, CLT 5.7% against 1.2%. Flights that did leave EWR in bad weather arrived on time 65.8% of the time, against 80.0% in normal hours.
Bad weather and normal hours at the airports
Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026| Departures from | EWR | CLT |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelled in bad weather | 6.9% | 5.7% |
| Cancelled in normal hours | 2.1% | 1.2% |
| Arrived on time, bad weather | 65.8% | 63.5% |
| Arrived on time, normal hours | 80.0% | 75.9% |
| Departures in bad weather | 51,613 | 55,311 |
Of the carriers on this route, United Airlines (5.3% cancelled against 8.9% for the other carriers at EWR) cancelled the fewest departures from EWR in bad weather and Republic Airways (11.8% cancelled against 6.1% for the other carriers at EWR) the most.
This route’s airlines in bad weather at EWR
All departures from EWR| Airline | Bad-weather departures | Cancelled | Other carriers |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 28,226 | 5.3%below the others | 8.9% |
| American Airlines | 2,735 | 7.2%about level | 7.0% |
| Spirit Airlines | 3,882 | 8.7%above the others | 6.4% |
| Republic Airways | 9,298 | 11.8%above the others | 6.1% |
These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from EWR and CLT, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from EWR on every route.
Weather source and limits. In full: EWR (airlines), CLT, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 5,980 | 78.1% | 3.31% | -10 min | 10.0% |
| United Airlines | 3,406 | 76.0% | 1.67% | -8 min | 11.1% |
| Republic Airways | 1,419 | 88.1% | 4.72% | -15 min | 3.5% |
| Spirit Airlines | 841 | 76.5% | 4.04% | -9 min | 11.4% |
American Airlines flew 51.3% of the 11,646 flights listed. Republic Airways cancelled 4.72% of its flights here against 1.67% for United Airlines.
Republic Airways arrived on time 12.1 percentage points more often than United Airlines on this route.
Other ways to fly New York to Charlotte
Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.
| Route | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LGA→CLT New York to Charlotte | 15,860 | 80.2% | 3.06% | -11 min | 54 |
| EWR→CLT this route Newark to Charlotte | 11,646 | 78.5% | 3.06% | -10 min | 51 |
Flying to CLT from the New York area? Compare EWR, LGA, JFK for CLT, with the same test for what counts as a real difference.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 7.0 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 81.3%
- Feb: 82.7%
- Mar: 82.5%
- Apr: 78.2%
- May: 74.8%
- Jun: 77.9%
- Jul: 66.8%
- Aug: 78.5%
- Sep: 82.6%
- Oct: 84.1%
- Nov: 80.0%
- Dec: 76.5%
July is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 17.3 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 61.9% from 376 flights
- August 2023: 79.8% from 378 flights
- September 2023: 82.0% from 327 flights
- October 2023: 93.3% from 298 flights
- November 2023: 88.0% from 276 flights
- December 2023: 86.9% from 275 flights
- January 2024: 77.7% from 289 flights
- February 2024: 88.4% from 280 flights
- March 2024: 83.7% from 291 flights
- April 2024: 75.5% from 337 flights
- May 2024: 69.7% from 365 flights
- June 2024: 73.7% from 350 flights
- July 2024: 60.8% from 356 flights
- August 2024: 73.3% from 345 flights
- September 2024: 80.7% from 331 flights
- October 2024: 83.3% from 348 flights
- November 2024: 79.5% from 292 flights
- December 2024: 73.5% from 309 flights
- January 2025: 82.4% from 320 flights
- February 2025: 77.3% from 291 flights
- March 2025: 82.6% from 337 flights
- April 2025: 72.9% from 281 flights
- May 2025: 67.6% from 263 flights
- June 2025: 76.9% from 299 flights
- July 2025: 71.0% from 324 flights
- August 2025: 82.3% from 304 flights
- September 2025: 85.5% from 279 flights
- October 2025: 76.3% from 323 flights
- November 2025: 73.6% from 340 flights
- December 2025: 70.2% from 317 flights
- January 2026: 83.6% from 342 flights
- February 2026: 82.5% from 315 flights
- March 2026: 81.4% from 359 flights
- April 2026: 85.9% from 306 flights
- May 2026: 88.2% from 273 flights
- June 2026: 84.3% from 271 flights
- July 2026: 76.0% from 279 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 80.6% against 77.0% in the 12 months before — improving by 3.6 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 11,646 EWR → CLT 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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