Route profile
LAS→CLT
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Las Vegas to Charlotte, 1,916 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 61% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 7,630 flights. How this is calculated
LAS → CLT arrives on time 82.0% of the time; the return trip, CLT → LAS, arrives on time 76.0% of the time, a 6.0-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
LAS → CLT spends 30.8 minutes on the ground on a 1,916-mile trip: 18.1 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at LAS and 12.7 minutes from touchdown to gate at CLT.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where LAS to CLT differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
LAS to CLT is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 9 PM: 82.3% arrive on time, 9.8 points ahead of the 72.5% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 12.8 points.
LAS to CLT struggles most at 2 PM: 68.6% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 6.4 points behind the 75.0% on routes of similar length at the same hour. Against all other routes the gap is 6 points.
LAS to CLT holds up on Wednesdays better than routes of similar length do: 87.1% on time to their 80.9%, a 6.2 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 6.3 points.
January is kinder to LAS to CLT than to routes of similar length: 87.2% on time against 79.1%, 8.1 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 8.1 points.
American Airlines does better on LAS to CLT than on its routes of similar length: 82.5% on time here, 77.8% there, 4.7 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 7.4 points.
LAS to CLT against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 9 PM departures | 82.3% | routes of similar length | 72.5% | +9.8 pts | 243 here, 31,489 there |
| Hour: 2 PM departures | 68.6% | routes of similar length | 75.0% | −6.4 pts | 831 here, 48,622 there |
| Weekday: Wednesday | 87.1% | routes of similar length | 80.9% | +6.2 pts | 1,043 here, 150,351 there |
| Month: January | 87.2% | routes of similar length | 79.1% | +8.1 pts | 514 here, 75,218 there |
| Airline: American Airlines | 82.5% | routes of similar length | 77.8% | +4.7 pts | 6,674 here, 236,682 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 1,916 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 LAS → CLT flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
LAS → CLT cancelled 78 of 7,630 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 98. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 82.1% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 119 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 78 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.
64 cancellations, 82.1% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
14 cancellations, 17.9% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
0 cancellations, 0.0% 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.
78 coded cancellations were recorded on LAS → CLT; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
36 min late
against a median of 10 min early
Percentiles over 7,630 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at CLT after arriving from LAS.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 31% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 17% | High risk |
| 60 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 6.5% | 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 1.02% of the time and diverts 0.43% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 7,519 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 36 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 7,630 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
LAS → CLT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 85.6% of the time, against 73.6% for 12–3 PM departures, a gap of 12.0 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 88.0% on time from 750 flights
- 7 AM: 91.5% on time from 166 flights
- 8 AM: 82.5% on time from 1,046 flights
- 9 AM: 78.6% on time from 559 flights
- 10 AM: 84.6% on time from 393 flights
- 11 AM: 74.0% on time from 424 flights
- 12 PM: 80.5% on time from 505 flights
- 1 PM: 79.8% on time from 128 flights
- 2 PM: 68.6% on time from 849 flights
- 3 PM to 8 PM: too few flights to score
- 9 PM: 82.3% on time from 249 flights
- 10 PM: 85.3% on time from 1,064 flights
- 11 PM: 86.2% on time from 1,362 flights
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why LAS → CLT runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
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 LAS → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
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 | 6,771 | 82.5% | 0.95% | -11 min | 6.8% |
| Spirit Airlines | 628 | 81.3% | 1.43% | -4 min | 4.4% |
| Frontier Airlines | 231 | 68.6% | 2.16% | 2 min | 8.0% |
American Airlines flew 88.7% of the 7,630 flights listed. Frontier Airlines cancelled 2.16% of its flights here against 0.95% for American Airlines.
American Airlines arrived on time 13.9 percentage points more often than Frontier 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1665 American Airlines | 8:00 AM | 917 | 85.3% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 8.8 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 87.2%
- Feb: 87.9%
- Mar: 82.9%
- Apr: 86.6%
- May: 79.4%
- Jun: 78.3%
- Jul: 70.5%
- Aug: 78.9%
- Sep: 81.8%
- Oct: 83.8%
- Nov: 87.5%
- Dec: 85.9%
July is historically the weakest month and February the strongest, a spread of 17.4 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 65.1% from 269 flights
- August 2023: 72.7% from 276 flights
- September 2023: 80.2% from 243 flights
- October 2023: 81.4% from 269 flights
- November 2023: 87.8% from 255 flights
- December 2023: 81.1% from 225 flights
- January 2024: 84.4% from 206 flights
- February 2024: 87.0% from 201 flights
- March 2024: 79.4% from 233 flights
- April 2024: 86.3% from 212 flights
- May 2024: 71.3% from 211 flights
- June 2024: 72.9% from 225 flights
- July 2024: 62.5% from 228 flights
- August 2024: 76.9% from 238 flights
- September 2024: 77.5% from 213 flights
- October 2024: 80.8% from 229 flights
- November 2024: 83.3% from 198 flights
- December 2024: 86.2% from 182 flights
- January 2025: 89.7% from 181 flights
- February 2025: 86.5% from 181 flights
- March 2025: 84.0% from 188 flights
- April 2025: 80.6% from 211 flights
- May 2025: 81.9% from 217 flights
- June 2025: 77.8% from 221 flights
- July 2025: 80.4% from 230 flights
- August 2025: 91.3% from 174 flights
- September 2025: 89.7% from 165 flights
- October 2025: 90.7% from 193 flights
- November 2025: 91.7% from 169 flights
- December 2025: 91.4% from 185 flights
- January 2026: 88.1% from 151 flights
- February 2026: 90.8% from 146 flights
- March 2026: 86.3% from 176 flights
- April 2026: 94.3% from 175 flights
- May 2026: 85.5% from 193 flights
- June 2026: 85.9% from 179 flights
- July 2026: 75.7% from 182 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 88.4% against 81.8% in the 12 months before — improving by 6.6 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 7,630 LAS → 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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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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