Route profile
FLL→CLT
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Fort Lauderdale to Charlotte, 632 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 23% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 10,147 flights. How this is calculated
FLL → CLT arrives on time 76.5% of the time; the return trip, CLT → FLL, arrives on time 72.9% of the time, a 3.6-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
FLL → CLT spends 28.3 minutes on the ground on a 632-mile trip: 16.9 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at FLL and 11.3 minutes from touchdown to gate at CLT.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
Reliability here swings unusually widely by season, a wider month-to-month spread than 90% of 3,357 comparable routes.
85.7% on time in a typical November, against 61.6% in July.
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 3,357 in the comparison.
Why FLL → CLT flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
FLL → CLT cancelled 184 of 10,147 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 55. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 72.8% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 76 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 184 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.
134 cancellations, 72.8% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
42 cancellations, 22.8% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
8 cancellations, 4.3% 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.
184 coded cancellations were recorded on FLL → CLT; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
56 min late
against a median of 6 min early
FLL → CLT has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 min early, but the worst tenth are 62 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 10,147 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at CLT after arriving from FLL.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 38% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 23% | High risk |
| 60 min | 16% | High risk |
| 90 min | 9.2% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 5.8% | 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 1.81% 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 9,946 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 56 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 10,147 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
FLL → CLT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 89.8% of the time, against 59.4% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 30.4 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 91.2% on time from 828 flights
- 7 AM: 89.0% on time from 1,222 flights
- 8 AM: 89.4% on time from 710 flights
- 9 AM: 88.1% on time from 469 flights
- 10 AM: 89.7% on time from 773 flights
- 11 AM: 83.3% on time from 682 flights
- 12 PM: 67.5% on time from 271 flights
- 1 PM: 72.2% on time from 315 flights
- 2 PM: 68.6% on time from 1,011 flights
- 3 PM: 72.9% on time from 317 flights
- 4 PM: 70.1% on time from 742 flights
- 5 PM: 67.0% on time from 822 flights
- 6 PM: 54.8% on time from 297 flights
- 7 PM: 59.5% on time from 1,185 flights
- 8 PM: too few flights to score
- 9 PM: 63.7% on time from 196 flights
- 10 PM: 55.6% on time from 147 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why FLL → 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 FLL → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on FLL → CLT, at 43.4%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 89.8% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 59.4%.
How this route holds up in bad weather
July 2023 – July 2026
The harder-hit end is CLT, where the flight lands. Its figure counts departures from CLT, so it says more about how that airport copes than about this route. Bad weather cancels 4.6 times the normal rate at CLT against 2.1 times at FLL. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: FLL 3.3% against 1.6%, CLT 5.7% against 1.2%. Flights that did leave FLL in bad weather arrived on time 54.6% of the time, against 73.3% in normal hours.
Bad weather and normal hours at the airports
Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026| Departures from | FLL | CLT |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelled in bad weather | 3.3% | 5.7% |
| Cancelled in normal hours | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Arrived on time, bad weather | 54.6% | 63.5% |
| Arrived on time, normal hours | 73.3% | 75.9% |
| Departures in bad weather | 13,418 | 55,311 |
Spirit Airlines (5.3% cancelled against 2.7% for the other carriers at FLL) cancelled more departures from FLL in bad weather than the other carriers there did in the same months. None of the route’s other carriers was clearly better.
This route’s airlines in bad weather at FLL
All departures from FLL| Airline | Bad-weather departures | Cancelled | Other carriers |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 1,100 | 2.6%about level | 3.4% |
| Spirit Airlines | 3,199 | 5.3%above the others | 2.7% |
These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from FLL and CLT, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from FLL on every route.
Weather source and limits. In full: FLL (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 | 7,349 | 79.9% | 1.61% | -8 min | 8.5% |
| Spirit Airlines | 2,536 | 68.4% | 2.17% | -1 min | 11.5% |
American Airlines flew 74.3% of the 9,885 flights listed.
American Airlines arrived on time 11.5 percentage points more often than Spirit Airlines on this route.
Other ways to fly Miami to Charlotte
Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.
| Route | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIA→CLT Miami to Charlotte | 11,291 | 75.9% | 1.33% | -5 min | 59 |
| FLL→CLT this route Fort Lauderdale to Charlotte | 10,147 | 76.5% | 1.81% | -6 min | 55 |
Flying to CLT from the Miami area? Compare FLL, MIA 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.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2087 American Airlines | 8:00 AM | 621 | 91.4% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 8.8 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 79.2%
- Feb: 80.0%
- Mar: 74.4%
- Apr: 79.8%
- May: 76.9%
- Jun: 73.6%
- Jul: 61.6%
- Aug: 67.9%
- Sep: 77.1%
- Oct: 84.4%
- Nov: 85.7%
- Dec: 77.8%
July is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 24.1 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 59.7% from 210 flights
- August 2023: 66.4% from 216 flights
- September 2023: 74.2% from 186 flights
- October 2023: 82.5% from 259 flights
- November 2023: 80.1% from 304 flights
- December 2023: 78.2% from 317 flights
- January 2024: 72.6% from 321 flights
- February 2024: 76.7% from 326 flights
- March 2024: 73.8% from 372 flights
- April 2024: 85.1% from 328 flights
- May 2024: 71.4% from 340 flights
- June 2024: 66.4% from 280 flights
- July 2024: 53.1% from 252 flights
- August 2024: 60.5% from 258 flights
- September 2024: 70.9% from 228 flights
- October 2024: 82.7% from 268 flights
- November 2024: 89.6% from 308 flights
- December 2024: 80.6% from 326 flights
- January 2025: 83.4% from 301 flights
- February 2025: 85.4% from 295 flights
- March 2025: 79.0% from 347 flights
- April 2025: 84.3% from 301 flights
- May 2025: 79.3% from 297 flights
- June 2025: 73.2% from 240 flights
- July 2025: 72.7% from 245 flights
- August 2025: 76.5% from 244 flights
- September 2025: 85.8% from 227 flights
- October 2025: 87.9% from 264 flights
- November 2025: 88.2% from 206 flights
- December 2025: 73.9% from 258 flights
- January 2026: 82.9% from 278 flights
- February 2026: 78.0% from 259 flights
- March 2026: 70.1% from 324 flights
- April 2026: 69.7% from 308 flights
- May 2026: 82.1% from 223 flights
- June 2026: 84.7% from 179 flights
- July 2026: 60.9% from 252 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 77.7% against 79.0% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 10,147 FLL → 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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