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Airport month · February 2024

Charlotte Douglas International in February 2024

83.4%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 15,768 domestic departures from Charlotte Douglas International (CLT). 83.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.2% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so CLT departures were 0.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CLT that month were on time 85.5% of the time (15,764 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 17%.

Every scheduled departure from CLT in February 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

February 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureFeb 2024Year earlierCLT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time83.4%—74.1%84.0%
Arrived on time82.2%—74.8%83.4%
Cancelled0.2%—2.0%0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.4 min—18.4 min11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day526—49717,307
Scheduled departures15,768—181,506519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines9,72662%79.9%4.6 min0.1%
OH PSA Airlines3,64123%86.6%-2.0 min0.1%
MQ Envoy Air4923%78.5%3.9 min0.2%
DL Delta Air Lines4043%95.5%-15.2 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines4023%76.4%9.7 min1.0%
UA United Airlines3492%87.4%-0.3 min0.3%
9E Endeavor Air2472%82.2%0.2 min2.8%
WN Southwest Airlines2361%89.8%-2.9 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines1401%85.0%1.8 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline740%95.9%-5.1 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways540%77.8%4.5 min1.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines30%100.0%-2.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CLT–MCOCharlotte to Orlando48079.6%6.5 min0.0%
CLT–LGACharlotte to New York45978.0%6.7 min2.2%
CLT–ATLCharlotte to Atlanta35689.0%-6.6 min0.0%
CLT–BOSCharlotte to Boston35181.2%3.8 min0.3%
CLT–ORDCharlotte to Chicago33087.3%-0.4 min0.0%
CLT–FLLCharlotte to Fort Lauderdale32778.6%5.3 min0.0%
CLT–DFWCharlotte to Dallas/Fort Worth31878.6%1.1 min0.0%
CLT–TPACharlotte to Tampa31676.9%6.3 min0.0%
CLT–PHLCharlotte to Philadelphia30177.1%10.3 min0.0%
CLT–BNACharlotte to Nashville29087.6%-1.1 min0.3%
CLT–RDUCharlotte to Raleigh/Durham28374.9%7.9 min0.0%
CLT–EWRCharlotte to Newark27987.5%2.4 min1.1%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Feb 2024Minutes
Air carrier36.8%35.9%53,971
Late-arriving aircraft43.9%36.9%64,420
National Aviation System17.0%21.7%24,966
Extreme weather1.5%5.3%2,142
Security0.9%0.3%1,330
146,829 delay minutes on 2,757 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left CLT on time in February 2024?

83.4% of 15,768 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for February 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for CLT · methodology · corrections.