Route profile
SRQ→CLT
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Sarasota/Bradenton to Charlotte, 547 miles.
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Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 36% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 4,992 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
SRQ → CLT arrives on time 81.6% of the time; the return trip, CLT → SRQ, arrives on time 75.8% of the time, a 5.8-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
SRQ → CLT spends 29.7 minutes on the ground on a 547-mile trip: 15.3 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at SRQ and 14.4 minutes from touchdown to gate at CLT.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
Every airline on this route performs about the same, a narrower carrier gap than 96% of 2,692 comparable routes.
PSA Airlines (82.5% on time) and American Airlines (81.6%) are close together here.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 2,692 in the comparison.
What sets this route apart
Where SRQ to CLT differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
SRQ to CLT is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 6 PM: 82.2% arrive on time, 14 points ahead of the 68.2% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 13.6 points.
SRQ to CLT holds up on Thursdays better than routes of similar length do: 83.1% on time to their 77.9%, a 5.2 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 6.3 points.
June is kinder to SRQ to CLT than to routes of similar length: 81.8% on time against 74.1%, 7.7 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 9.1 points.
PSA Airlines does better on SRQ to CLT than on its routes of similar length: 82.5% on time here, 75.5% there, 7 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 6.8 points.
SRQ to CLT against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 6 PM departures | 82.2% | routes of similar length | 68.2% | +14.0 pts | 135 here, 99,286 there |
| Weekday: Thursday | 83.1% | routes of similar length | 77.9% | +5.2 pts | 706 here, 260,789 there |
| Month: June | 81.8% | routes of similar length | 74.1% | +7.7 pts | 329 here, 144,161 there |
| Airline: PSA Airlines | 82.5% | routes of similar length | 75.5% | +7.0 pts | 790 here, 22,129 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 547 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 SRQ → CLT flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
SRQ → CLT cancelled 109 of 4,992 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 46. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 89.9% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 51 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 109 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.
98 cancellations, 89.9% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
7 cancellations, 6.4% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
4 cancellations, 3.7% 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.
109 coded cancellations were recorded on SRQ → CLT; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
42 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 4,992 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at CLT after arriving from SRQ.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 31% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 18% | High risk |
| 60 min | 12% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 7.6% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 5.0% | 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 0.22% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 4,872 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 42 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 4,992 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
SRQ → CLT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 91.0% of the time, against 71.5% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 19.5 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 90.4% on time from 366 flights
- 7 AM: too few flights to score
- 8 AM: 91.1% on time from 785 flights
- 9 AM: 89.5% on time from 181 flights
- 10 AM: 87.2% on time from 295 flights
- 11 AM: 82.0% on time from 678 flights
- 12 PM: 84.2% on time from 137 flights
- 1 PM: 79.2% on time from 861 flights
- 2 PM: 80.2% on time from 122 flights
- 3 PM to 4 PM: too few flights to score
- 5 PM: 71.5% on time from 527 flights
- 6 PM: 82.2% on time from 137 flights
- 7 PM: 69.1% on time from 664 flights
- 8 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why SRQ → 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
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for SRQ → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on SRQ → CLT, at 49.0%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 91.0% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 71.5%.
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 | 4,044 | 81.6% | 2.23% | -8 min | 7.9% |
| PSA Airlines | 810 | 82.5% | 2.10% | -10 min | 7.0% |
American Airlines flew 83.3% of the 4,854 flights listed.
Carriers on this route performed within a couple of percentage points of each other.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1477 American Airlines | 8:13 AM | 646 | 90.7% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 6.4 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 82.6%
- Feb: 80.9%
- Mar: 77.7%
- Apr: 83.3%
- May: 77.6%
- Jun: 81.8%
- Jul: 72.1%
- Aug: 78.8%
- Sep: 87.2%
- Oct: 89.3%
- Nov: 87.6%
- Dec: 82.3%
July is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 17.2 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: too few flights to score (117)
- August 2023: 83.6% from 123 flights
- September 2023: too few flights to score (109)
- October 2023: 85.3% from 143 flights
- November 2023: 86.3% from 168 flights
- December 2023: 81.9% from 172 flights
- January 2024: 78.4% from 173 flights
- February 2024: 80.0% from 170 flights
- March 2024: 79.5% from 186 flights
- April 2024: 79.2% from 176 flights
- May 2024: 70.8% from 159 flights
- June 2024: 83.6% from 124 flights
- July 2024: 60.3% from 122 flights
- August 2024: too few flights to score (119)
- September 2024: too few flights to score (119)
- October 2024: too few flights to score (118)
- November 2024: 91.1% from 169 flights
- December 2024: 80.9% from 162 flights
- January 2025: 87.0% from 140 flights
- February 2025: 76.4% from 131 flights
- March 2025: 70.2% from 155 flights
- April 2025: 87.9% from 150 flights
- May 2025: 79.5% from 147 flights
- June 2025: 77.1% from 122 flights
- July 2025: 77.3% from 121 flights
- August 2025: 83.3% from 122 flights
- September 2025: too few flights to score (99)
- October 2025: too few flights to score (117)
- November 2025: 84.9% from 149 flights
- December 2025: 84.6% from 136 flights
- January 2026: too few flights to score (100)
- February 2026: too few flights to score (99)
- March 2026: 84.3% from 124 flights
- April 2026: 83.3% from 139 flights
- May 2026: 83.7% from 130 flights
- June 2026: too few flights to score (90)
- July 2026: too few flights to score (92)
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 85.3% against 80.8% in the 12 months before — improving by 4.5 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 4,992 SRQ → 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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