PlainFlights

CLT vs MDT - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
CLT

Charlotte, NC

Charlotte, North Carolina

View full profile →
Airport B
MDT

Harrisburg, PA

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

View full profile →

Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric CLT MDT
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 82.0% 82.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 81.1 min 82.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 18.0% 17.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.10% 1.30%
Total Flights 2,345,248 60,271
Delayed Flights 421,203 10,338
Cancelled Flights 25,904 785
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Carrier

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

CLT - Charlotte, NC

Late Aircraft 44.3%
Carrier 31.4%
NAS 16.4%
Weather 7.6%
Security 0.4%

MDT - Harrisburg, PA

Carrier 40.8%
Late Aircraft 35.3%
NAS 16.3%
Weather 7.5%
Security 0.1%

Top Routes

Top routes from CLT

Route Flights On-Time
CLT → ATL
Atlanta
29,653 84.4%
ATL → CLT
Charlotte
29,651 84.6%
CLT → LGA
New York
28,574 77.9%
LGA → CLT
Charlotte
28,570 84%
CLT → MCO
Orlando
27,975 75.4%
MCO → CLT
Charlotte
27,972 79.5%

Top routes from MDT

Route Flights On-Time
CLT → MDT
Harrisburg
6,463 81.4%
MDT → CLT
Charlotte
6,456 85.9%
ORD → MDT
Harrisburg
5,647 80%
MDT → ORD
Chicago
5,639 82.8%
ATL → MDT
Harrisburg
5,417 89.2%
MDT → ATL
Atlanta
5,387 88%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.