Charlotte (CLT) – Phoenix (PHX)
- Distance
- 2,854 km
- 1,773 mi · 1,541 nm
- Flight time
- 4 h 24 min / 3 h 55 min
- Average gate to gate: CLT → PHX / back
- Time difference
- 2 h / 3 h
- January / July
- CO2 per passenger
- 358 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (212 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 958,526
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −7.5%
- Flights / week
- 110
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 88%
- 1,090,661 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 1
- AA
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from CLT
- 275°
- Heading from PHX
- 77°
- Halfway point
- 35.33, -96.64
- Great-circle km
- 2,848 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air CLT → PHX
- 4 h
- In the air PHX → CLT
- 3 h 26 min
- Clocks
- 2 h in January, 3 h in July
The estimate for a route without real times is 4 h 10 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
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| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 75,809 |
| Sep 2025 | 71,772 |
| Oct 2025 | 85,163 |
| Nov 2025 | 73,425 |
| Dec 2025 | 78,717 |
| Jan 2026 | 67,174 |
| Feb 2026 | 72,485 |
| Mar 2026 | 92,521 |
| Apr 2026 | 87,638 |
| May 2026 | 88,349 |
| Jun 2026 | 83,734 |
| Jul 2026 | 81,739 |
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| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 452 |
| Sep 2025 | 433 |
| Oct 2025 | 488 |
| Nov 2025 | 436 |
| Dec 2025 | 468 |
| Jan 2026 | 400 |
| Feb 2026 | 452 |
| Mar 2026 | 553 |
| Apr 2026 | 532 |
| May 2026 | 530 |
| Jun 2026 | 474 |
| Jul 2026 | 490 |
Airlines flying CLT–PHX nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| AAAmerican Airlines | 110 | 100% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Airbus Industrie A321Neoxlr · 4,336 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 1,346 flights
- Boeing B737 Max 800 · 14 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 8 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 2 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 2 flights
Also carried: 129 tonnes of freight and 0 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 84%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 12 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 1.1%
- Flights counted
- 5,764
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Delay minutes by cause: airline 41% · aircraft arriving late 41% · air traffic system 12% · weather 6% · security 0%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $370
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $340
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- American Airlines
- 88% of passengers · $382
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 2% of passengers · $154
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $326 · Q3 2025 $328 · Q4 2025 $333 · Q1 2026 $370).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $378, likely $327–$431
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 76% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 7.7%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
Cheapest quarter on this route: Q3, typically 3% below the year's average (9 years of DOT data, without 2020–21).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 1a (airline ticket sample, US domestic airport pairs). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 2,848 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.