Route profile
MYR→ATL
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Myrtle Beach to Atlanta, 317 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 83% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 4,489 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
MYR → ATL arrives on time 88.4% of the time; the return trip, ATL → MYR, arrives on time 82.1% of the time, a 6.3-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
MYR → ATL spends 21.7 minutes on the ground on a 317-mile trip: 13.1 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at MYR and 8.6 minutes from touchdown to gate at ATL.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where MYR to ATL differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
MYR to ATL is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 5 PM: 88.9% arrive on time, 16.9 points ahead of the 72.0% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 19.1 points.
MYR to ATL holds up on Fridays better than routes of similar length do: 88.5% on time to their 77.1%, a 11.4 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 12.3 points.
April is kinder to MYR to ATL than to routes of similar length: 93.9% on time against 80.7%, 13.2 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 14 points.
Delta Air Lines does better on MYR to ATL than on its routes of similar length: 88.4% on time here, 81.3% there, 7.1 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 6.9 points.
MYR to ATL against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 5 PM departures | 88.9% | routes of similar length | 72.0% | +16.9 pts | 226 here, 58,738 there |
| Weekday: Friday | 88.5% | routes of similar length | 77.1% | +11.4 pts | 645 here, 142,183 there |
| Month: April | 93.9% | routes of similar length | 80.7% | +13.2 pts | 374 here, 76,578 there |
| Airline: Delta Air Lines | 88.4% | routes of similar length | 81.3% | +7.1 pts | 4,414 here, 101,340 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 317 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 MYR → ATL flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
MYR → ATL cancelled 62 of 4,489 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 72. The reason filed most often was the airline, 58.1% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 125 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 62 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
36 cancellations, 58.1% of the total.
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
26 cancellations, 41.9% 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. 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.
62 coded cancellations were recorded on MYR → ATL; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
19 min late
against a median of 15 min early
Percentiles over 4,489 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at ATL after arriving from MYR.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 19% | High risk |
| 45 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 60 min | 7.7% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 4.9% | Low risk |
| 120 min | 3.5% | 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 1.38% of the time and diverts 0.07% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 4,424 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 19 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 4,489 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
MYR → ATL flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 92.5% of the time, against 81.5% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 11.0 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 92.3% on time from 1,025 flights
- 7 AM to 9 AM: too few flights to score
- 10 AM: 91.2% on time from 373 flights
- 11 AM: 91.6% on time from 699 flights
- 12 PM: too few flights to score
- 1 PM: 82.7% on time from 209 flights
- 2 PM: 88.2% on time from 694 flights
- 3 PM: 74.8% on time from 126 flights
- 4 PM: 87.4% on time from 184 flights
- 5 PM: 88.9% on time from 228 flights
- 6 PM: 83.9% on time from 447 flights
- 7 PM: 77.6% on time from 301 flights
- 8 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why MYR → ATL 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
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for MYR → ATL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 4,479 | 88.4% | 1.38% | -15 min | 5.0% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 8.6 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 90.2%
- Feb: 92.0%
- Mar: 88.4%
- Apr: 93.9%
- May: 87.8%
- Jun: 87.3%
- Jul: 76.9%
- Aug: 83.7%
- Sep: 93.7%
- Oct: 91.9%
- Nov: 94.8%
- Dec: 87.9%
July is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 17.9 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 84.2% from 123 flights
- August 2023: 82.4% from 124 flights
- September 2023: 95.0% from 120 flights
- October 2023: too few flights to score (119)
- November 2023: too few flights to score (112)
- December 2023: too few flights to score (118)
- January 2024: too few flights to score (101)
- February 2024: too few flights to score (95)
- March 2024: 92.5% from 120 flights
- April 2024: 97.5% from 120 flights
- May 2024: 91.8% from 123 flights
- June 2024: 94.2% from 120 flights
- July 2024: 80.2% from 122 flights
- August 2024: 86.7% from 120 flights
- September 2024: too few flights to score (114)
- October 2024: too few flights to score (118)
- November 2024: too few flights to score (108)
- December 2024: 86.3% from 125 flights
- January 2025: too few flights to score (111)
- February 2025: too few flights to score (98)
- March 2025: 83.2% from 120 flights
- April 2025: 89.2% from 120 flights
- May 2025: 84.7% from 137 flights
- June 2025: 79.0% from 142 flights
- July 2025: 71.7% from 146 flights
- August 2025: 82.0% from 122 flights
- September 2025: too few flights to score (116)
- October 2025: too few flights to score (119)
- November 2025: too few flights to score (114)
- December 2025: 84.8% from 138 flights
- January 2026: too few flights to score (113)
- February 2026: too few flights to score (98)
- March 2026: too few flights to score (118)
- April 2026: 94.8% from 136 flights
- May 2026: 87.4% from 149 flights
- June 2026: 89.4% from 143 flights
- July 2026: 73.4% from 147 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 88.3% against 85.8% in the 12 months before — improving by 2.5 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 4,489 MYR → ATL 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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