CLT to ORD flight delays
Charlotte, NC (CLT) Chicago, IL (ORD) · 599 miles
417 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
70.9%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.36%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
80 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
24 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 3.36% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
Only American Airlines flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
This is a thin route — 417 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.
Flights from Charlotte to Chicago run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, American Airlines arrived on time most often on CLT to ORD.
Every airline on CLT to ORD
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 300 | 65.97% | 3.67% | 73 min | D |
| Republic Airways | 51 | 84.31% | 0% | 96 min | — |
| SkyWest Airlines | 36 | 76.47% | 5.56% | 163 min | — |
| United Airlines | 30 | 89.66% | 3.33% | 23 min | — |
The return leg
ORD to CLT Chicago back to Charlotte 72.52% on time DOther routes from Charlotte
Common questions
Are flights from Charlotte to Chicago usually delayed?
70.9% of flights on the CLT to ORD route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Charlotte to Chicago?
Only American Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 300 flights and 65.97% arriving on time.
How often are CLT to ORD flights cancelled?
3.36% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 34 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When CLT to ORD flights are late, how late are they?
About 80 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on CLT to ORD during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →