Flights at CLT
Plan your time at CLT: finding your terminal, onward transport and practical airport services.
One terminal, five concourses
Charlotte is a single terminal with five concourses fanning out from a central hall the airport calls the Atrium. Concourses A to E, and you walk to all of them. There is no train and no shuttle inside the building, which is unusual for a hub this size.
Your airline's current gate and departure instructions take precedence over this guide.
The three checkpoints
Every concourse and every gate at Charlotte is reachable from any of the three checkpoints, so which one you use is a question of queue, not of destination.
Checkpoint 1 runs 3:45 a.m. to 8 p.m. and takes standard, special assistance and family screening. Checkpoint 3 keeps the same hours. Checkpoint 2 carries the main PreCheck lane until 11 p.m. and is the only one open past eight in the evening.
Getting into Charlotte
Taxis wait on the outer curb of the Arrivals and Baggage Claim level in Zone 1, generally 5 a.m. to midnight. Charlotte sets flat fares rather than leaving it to the meter: $32 to Uptown, meaning anywhere inside the I-277 loop, and $16 for anything within three miles of the airport. A $2.50 airport fee is added to every trip.
Ride apps pick up a floor above, on the Departures and Ticketing level, in the inner lanes at Zones 1 to 3.
Parking
Nine ways to leave a car, from valet and the Express Deck down to two long-term lots and the free cell phone lot.
Each parking page prints its daily maximum: $14 at Long Term Lots 1 and 2, $18 at the Daily North Lot, $24 at both Express Decks, $28 at the Daily Decks, $35 at the Hourly Deck and $50 for Valet. Several are sold only online, at parkclt.com or in the CLT Airport app.
Finding a person
Four Traveler Information Centers sit on the Arrivals and Baggage Claim level. They hold the hotel numbers and the phone for calling a courtesy vehicle, which matters here because the airport publishes no hotel list of its own.
Wheelchair-accessible taxis are requested through the Parking Dispatch Office on 704-359-4038, the same number for a fare dispute.
Reviewed 2026-09-22. Information is based on Charlotte Douglas International Airport guidance; this is not a live service-status feed.
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