Airlines continue to cut flights at CLT ahead of holidays

CHARLOTTE — Airlines have been scaling back their fourth-quarter plans for flights to Charlotte Douglas International Airport — even as the holiday travel season approaches.

Scheduled flights at CLT for the fourth quarter dropped 12.8% between Aug. 2 and Oct. 25, according to figures compiled by Cirium, a provider of aviation and travel data analytics. That came in as the 19th-largest percentage decline among airports nationwide that had at least 10,000 flights scheduled for Q4 in August.

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Schedule tightening is happening at almost all major airports across the country. Cirium data shows the number of scheduled Q4 flights in the U.S. dropped 12% during the same time period. CLT saw its number of scheduled flights drop from 66,925 to 58,383 from August through Oct. 25.

The schedule tightening does seem to be leveling off. Between Oct. 20-25, CLT’s schedule had no change. And flights on CLT’s schedule only dropped by 3.8% percent after Oct. 8.

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