Route profile
PIT→CLT
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Pittsburgh to Charlotte, 366 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 62% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 5,976 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
PIT → CLT arrives on time 82.6% of the time; the return trip, CLT → PIT, arrives on time 74.9% of the time, a 7.8-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
PIT → CLT spends 27.9 minutes on the ground on a 366-mile trip: 14.5 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at PIT and 13.4 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 PIT to CLT differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
PIT to CLT struggles most at 4 PM: 58.7% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 13.7 points behind the 72.4% on routes of similar length at the same hour. Against all other routes the gap is 12 points.
PIT to CLT is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 10 AM: 89.3% arrive on time, 5.1 points ahead of the 84.2% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 6.6 points.
PIT to CLT holds up on Thursdays better than routes of similar length do: 83.7% on time to their 77.3%, a 6.4 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 6.9 points.
June is kinder to PIT to CLT than to routes of similar length: 80.9% on time against 73.9%, 7 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 8.2 points.
American Airlines does better on PIT to CLT than on its routes of similar length: 83.0% on time here, 75.7% there, 7.3 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 7.9 points.
PIT to CLT against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 4 PM departures | 58.7% | routes of similar length | 72.4% | −13.7 pts | 349 here, 87,252 there |
| Hour: 10 AM departures | 89.3% | routes of similar length | 84.2% | +5.1 pts | 737 here, 99,631 there |
| Weekday: Thursday | 83.7% | routes of similar length | 77.3% | +6.4 pts | 870 here, 220,641 there |
| Month: June | 80.9% | routes of similar length | 73.9% | +7.0 pts | 472 here, 119,471 there |
| Airline: American Airlines | 83.0% | routes of similar length | 75.7% | +7.3 pts | 5,704 here, 150,759 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 366 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 PIT → CLT flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
PIT → CLT cancelled 77 of 5,976 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 78. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 81.8% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 95 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 77 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.
63 cancellations, 81.8% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
14 cancellations, 18.2% 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.
77 coded cancellations were recorded on PIT → CLT; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
36 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 5,976 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at CLT after arriving from PIT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 33% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 17% | High risk |
| 60 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 6.3% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 4.0% | 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 1.29% of the time and diverts 0.10% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 5,893 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 5,976 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
PIT → CLT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 92.2% of the time, against 68.1% for 3–6 PM departures, a gap of 24.1 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 4 AM: too few flights to score
- 5 AM: 95.4% on time from 641 flights
- 6 AM: 91.7% on time from 891 flights
- 7 AM: 90.9% on time from 157 flights
- 8 AM: 89.0% on time from 452 flights
- 9 AM: 86.4% on time from 313 flights
- 10 AM: 89.3% on time from 740 flights
- 11 AM: 92.2% on time from 121 flights
- 12 PM: too few flights to score
- 1 PM: 78.6% on time from 759 flights
- 2 PM: 74.5% on time from 217 flights
- 3 PM: 78.2% on time from 209 flights
- 4 PM: 58.7% on time from 352 flights
- 5 PM: 71.5% on time from 363 flights
- 6 PM: 59.8% on time from 179 flights
- 7 PM: 72.4% on time from 407 flights
- 8 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why PIT → 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 PIT → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on PIT → CLT, at 55.5%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 92.2% of the time and 3–6 PM departures 68.1%.
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 | 5,774 | 83.0% | 1.11% | -7 min | 6.3% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Monday the least, a gap of 5.4 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 80.5%
- Feb: 81.2%
- Mar: 84.6%
- Apr: 83.9%
- May: 82.5%
- Jun: 80.9%
- Jul: 73.9%
- Aug: 79.9%
- Sep: 85.8%
- Oct: 89.0%
- Nov: 88.9%
- Dec: 81.5%
July is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 15.1 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 72.9% from 148 flights
- August 2023: 81.4% from 171 flights
- September 2023: 84.9% from 153 flights
- October 2023: 90.8% from 173 flights
- November 2023: 88.3% from 171 flights
- December 2023: 91.4% from 139 flights
- January 2024: 75.2% from 146 flights
- February 2024: 87.4% from 143 flights
- March 2024: 85.2% from 155 flights
- April 2024: 81.2% from 149 flights
- May 2024: 74.3% from 154 flights
- June 2024: 78.7% from 151 flights
- July 2024: 67.1% from 153 flights
- August 2024: 76.5% from 173 flights
- September 2024: 83.4% from 183 flights
- October 2024: 89.7% from 203 flights
- November 2024: 87.8% from 156 flights
- December 2024: 79.8% from 168 flights
- January 2025: 82.2% from 156 flights
- February 2025: 77.6% from 154 flights
- March 2025: 83.8% from 186 flights
- April 2025: 81.9% from 147 flights
- May 2025: 85.4% from 180 flights
- June 2025: 82.1% from 152 flights
- July 2025: 77.8% from 154 flights
- August 2025: 81.8% from 171 flights
- September 2025: 89.7% from 146 flights
- October 2025: 86.4% from 169 flights
- November 2025: 90.6% from 161 flights
- December 2025: 74.5% from 159 flights
- January 2026: 84.3% from 151 flights
- February 2026: 78.6% from 132 flights
- March 2026: 85.1% from 150 flights
- April 2026: 87.9% from 174 flights
- May 2026: 86.5% from 186 flights
- June 2026: 81.9% from 180 flights
- July 2026: 77.1% from 179 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 83.7% against 82.5% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 5,976 PIT → 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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