PHL → CLT Flight Reliability

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Route reliability

July 2023 – July 2026

Route Reliability Score

52/ 100Fair

Better than 19% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)

Calculated from 11,585 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals

77.4%

8,761 of 11,317

Cancellation rate

2.18%

252 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-8 min

Average 10.7 min

Severe delays

10.3%

60+ minutes late

Delay when late

89 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Flights analyzed

11,585

2 carriers

PHL → CLT arrives on time 77.4% of the time; the return trip, CLT → PHL, arrives on time 72.7% of the time, a 4.8-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.

PHL → CLT spends 32.4 minutes on the ground on a 449-mile trip: 20.7 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at PHL and 11.7 minutes from touchdown to gate at CLT.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

Why PHL → CLT flights are cancelled

July 2023 – July 2026

PHL → CLT cancelled 252 of 11,585 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 46. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 80.6% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 57 scheduled flights.

Share of cancellations

Weather80.6%

Airline15.5%

Air traffic4.0%

Security0.0%

Of 252 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 57

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

203 cancellations, 80.6% of the total.

The airline1 in 297

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

39 cancellations, 15.5% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 1,159

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

10 cancellations, 4.0% of the total.

Security—

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.

252 coded cancellations were recorded on PHL → CLT; the section appears from 50.

When it goes wrong

July 2023 – July 2026

One arrival in ten is worse than

61 min late

against a median of 8 min early

Arrived an hour or more late10.3%

Typical delay when late89 min

Cancelled2.18%

Landed somewhere else0.14%

PHL → CLT has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 8 min early, but the worst tenth are 69 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 11,585 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

Will your connection be tight enough?

Layovers at CLT after arriving from PHL.

Connection buffer and chance of missing by layover length, PHL → CLT arrivals
Connection time	Chance of missing	Reads as
30 min	35%	Likely to miss
45 min	22%	High risk
60 min	16%	High risk
90 min	10%	Some risk
120 min	6.7%	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 2.18% of the time and diverts 0.14% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.

Chance of missing is the share of 11,317 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 61 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 11,585 operations.

Any other layover length: connection checker.

Best time to fly

PHL → CLT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 86.2% of the time, against 66.1% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 20.1 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the departure airport (PHL).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 8.3 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 3.3 points.

On-time arrival rate for PHL to CLT by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6 AM–7 AM
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89
90–99

Fewer than 120 flights, not scored

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.

No slot is named best or worst: too few reach 500 flights. Departures before 6 AM and after 7 PM (1,564 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday for PHL to CLT. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6 AM–7 AM	89.2% on time175 flights	90.0% on time151 flights	93.5% on time161 flights	88.4% on time178 flights	90.7% on time176 flights	90.4% on time170 flights	82.7% on time180 flights
7 AM–8 AM	74 flights, too few to score	66 flights, too few to score	56 flights, too few to score	63 flights, too few to score	77 flights, too few to score	49 flights, too few to score	64 flights, too few to score
8 AM–9 AM	85.9% on time172 flights	90.3% on time155 flights	82.8% on time166 flights	84.8% on time175 flights	85.4% on time173 flights	86.0% on time168 flights	85.9% on time170 flights
9 AM–10 AM	8 flights, too few to score	8 flights, too few to score	4 flights, too few to score	15 flights, too few to score	6 flights, too few to score	15 flights, too few to score	4 flights, too few to score
10 AM–11 AM	87.6% on time176 flights	82.9% on time165 flights	86.9% on time161 flights	87.2% on time174 flights	85.0% on time174 flights	88.1% on time163 flights	82.7% on time180 flights
11 AM–12 PM	116 flights, too few to score	112 flights, too few to score	83.3% on time121 flights	111 flights, too few to score	115 flights, too few to score	110 flights, too few to score	115 flights, too few to score
12 PM–1 PM	36 flights, too few to score	37 flights, too few to score	42 flights, too few to score	46 flights, too few to score	35 flights, too few to score	36 flights, too few to score	44 flights, too few to score
1 PM–2 PM	75.4% on time174 flights	82.5% on time178 flights	88.0% on time167 flights	79.3% on time184 flights	77.0% on time181 flights	78.8% on time166 flights	71.3% on time191 flights
2 PM–3 PM	35 flights, too few to score	12 flights, too few to score	18 flights, too few to score	9 flights, too few to score	29 flights, too few to score	21 flights, too few to score	7 flights, too few to score
3 PM–4 PM	74.3% on time183 flights	78.2% on time170 flights	74.9% on time175 flights	71.5% on time182 flights	70.1% on time186 flights	73.7% on time178 flights	68.3% on time185 flights
4 PM–5 PM	22 flights, too few to score	28 flights, too few to score	22 flights, too few to score	19 flights, too few to score	21 flights, too few to score	21 flights, too few to score	17 flights, too few to score
5 PM–6 PM	61.4% on time179 flights	72.2% on time147 flights	72.6% on time147 flights	66.9% on time155 flights	61.6% on time167 flights	68.8% on time163 flights	59.4% on time163 flights
6 PM–7 PM	68.9% on time138 flights	74.1% on time147 flights	71.6% on time149 flights	63.1% on time133 flights	61.6% on time142 flights	61.6% on time130 flights	53.7% on time132 flights

By departure window

5–9 AM86.2%

9 AM–12 PM83.8%

12–3 PM78.2%

3–6 PM70.1%

6–9 PM66.1%

9 PM–5 AM76.1%

By departure hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Why PHL → CLT runs late

July 2023 – July 2026

Late-arriving aircraft49.7%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline29.3%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Air traffic control16.0%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather5.0%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.1%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for PHL → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on PHL → CLT, at 49.7%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 86.2% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 66.1%.

How this route holds up in bad weather

July 2023 – July 2026

Bad weather raises cancellations by a similar amount at both ends of PHL to CLT: 4.3 times the normal rate at PHL and 4.6 times at CLT. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: PHL 6.5% against 1.5%, CLT 5.7% against 1.2%. Flights that did leave PHL in bad weather arrived on time 64.3% of the time, against 78.2% in normal hours.

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Departures from PHL and CLT in hours of bad weather and in normal hours
Departures from	PHL	CLT
Cancelled in bad weather	6.5%	5.7%
Cancelled in normal hours	1.5%	1.2%
Arrived on time, bad weather	64.3%	63.5%
Arrived on time, normal hours	78.2%	75.9%
Departures in bad weather	32,038	55,311

None of the 2 carriers on this route stood clearly apart from the other carriers at PHL in bad weather.

This route’s airlines in bad weather at PHL

All departures from PHL

Cancellation rates in bad weather at PHL for the airlines that fly PHL to CLT, against the other carriers at PHL in the same months
Airline	Bad-weather departures	Cancelled	Other carriers
American Airlines	14,281	6.4%about level	6.8%
Frontier Airlines	3,603	6.5%about level	6.2%

These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from PHL and CLT, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from PHL on every route.

Weather source and limits. In full: PHL (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.

Airlines on this route
Carrier	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Severe
American Airlines	9,359	79.2%	2.04%	-8 min	9.2%
Frontier Airlines	2,092	69.8%	2.92%	-4 min	14.8%

American Airlines flew 81.7% of the 11,451 flights listed.

American Airlines arrived on time 9.4 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.

Flights on this route
Flight	Scheduled	Operations	On time
F92387 Frontier Airlines	7:10 AM	613	81.6%

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon76.9%

Tue81.7%

Wed82.3%

Thu76.1%

Fri76.1%

Sat77.9%

Sun71.6%

Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 10.7 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

July is historically the weakest month and February the strongest, a spread of 17.6 percentage points.

Reliability over time

July 2023 – July 2026

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25

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Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 80.3% against 76.4% in the 12 months before — improving by 3.9 percentage points.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 11,585 PHL → 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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Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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PHL→CLT

Right now

Route reliability

Why PHL → CLT flights are cancelled

Share of cancellations

What each reason means

When it goes wrong

Will your connection be tight enough?

Best time to fly

By day and hour

By departure window

By departure hour

Why PHL → CLT runs late

How this route holds up in bad weather

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

This route’s airlines in bad weather at PHL

Airlines on this route

Flights on this route

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

By month

Reliability over time

Data and methodology