Route profile
OMA→CLT
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Omaha to Charlotte, 913 miles.
Right now
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Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 49% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 2,806 flights. How this is calculated
OMA → CLT arrives on time 81.2% of the time; the return trip, CLT → OMA, arrives on time 75.8% of the time, a 5.5-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
OMA → CLT spends 31.6 minutes on the ground on a 913-mile trip: 15.2 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at OMA and 16.4 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 OMA to CLT differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
OMA to CLT is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 3 PM: 83.2% arrive on time, 12.2 points ahead of the 71.0% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 10.5 points.
OMA to CLT holds up on Wednesdays better than routes of similar length do: 86.2% on time to their 80.2%, a 6 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 5.4 points.
December is kinder to OMA to CLT than to routes of similar length: 85.1% on time against 78.5%, 6.6 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 6.3 points.
American Airlines does better on OMA to CLT than on its routes of similar length: 82.3% on time here, 74.0% there, 8.3 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 7.2 points.
OMA to CLT against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 3 PM departures | 83.2% | routes of similar length | 71.0% | +12.2 pts | 197 here, 164,585 there |
| Weekday: Wednesday | 86.2% | routes of similar length | 80.2% | +6.0 pts | 378 here, 381,630 there |
| Month: December | 85.1% | routes of similar length | 78.5% | +6.6 pts | 221 here, 232,246 there |
| Airline: American Airlines | 82.3% | routes of similar length | 74.0% | +8.3 pts | 2,487 here, 476,944 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 913 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.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
39 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 2,806 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at CLT after arriving from OMA.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 32% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 18% | High risk |
| 60 min | 12% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 7.0% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 4.5% | 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 1.53% of the time and diverts 0.29% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 2,755 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 39 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 2,806 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
OMA → CLT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 88.7% of the time, against 68.3% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 20.4 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 88.8% on time from 1,080 flights
- 7 AM to 12 PM: too few flights to score
- 1 PM: 76.4% on time from 436 flights
- 2 PM: 77.2% on time from 455 flights
- 3 PM: 83.2% on time from 205 flights
- 4 PM: too few flights to score
- 5 PM: 75.6% on time from 275 flights
- 6 PM: 68.2% on time from 278 flights
- 7 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why OMA → 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 OMA → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on OMA → CLT, at 48.3%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 88.7% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 68.3%.
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 | 2,527 | 82.3% | 1.35% | -9 min | 6.7% |
| PSA Airlines | 276 | 71.7% | 3.26% | 0 min | 10.2% |
American Airlines flew 90.2% of the 2,803 flights listed. PSA Airlines cancelled 3.26% of its flights here against 1.35% for American Airlines.
American Airlines arrived on time 10.6 percentage points more often than PSA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1042 American Airlines | 6:25 AM | 629 | 89.0% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 7.7 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 79.9%
- Feb: 84.6%
- Mar: 83.3%
- Apr: 82.3%
- May: 80.2%
- Jun: 72.0%
- Jul: 74.4%
- Aug: 77.4%
- Sep: 84.5%
- Oct: 86.1%
- Nov: 87.3%
- Dec: 85.1%
June is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 15.3 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 84.4% against 79.5% in the 12 months before — improving by 4.9 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 2,806 OMA → 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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