Carrier performance at one airport
OH→CLT
PSA Airlines at Charlotte Douglas International
- Departures
- 39,908
- Period
- June 2025 to May 2026
- Routes
- 25
- Rank here
- #5 of 10
PSA Airlines at Charlotte lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.4%. Roughly one flight in four arrive 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 39,908 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 5,543 at 86.2% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, PSA Airlines runs about a point ahead of the 76.0% weighted average across all carriers at CLT. That is the comparison worth making: every operator here works the same runways, the same airspace and the same weather.
Key figures
On time
76.9%
38,803 completed departures
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
2.50%
At CLT, this carrier only
Rank here
#5
Of 10 carriers clearing the floor at CLT
These figures cover 40,000 flights between June 2025 and May 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Against the competition
Every carrier at CLT, ranked
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 86.2% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 68.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 2,956 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 5,543 | 86.2% | 80 min | 1.35% | A |
| Envoy Air | 5,807 | 82.8% | 60 min | 1.98% | B |
| Republic Airways | 3,775 | 82.2% | 81 min | 3.79% | B− |
| United Airlines | 2,732 | 77.8% | 99 min | 1.90% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 39,908 | 76.9% | 70 min | 2.50% | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 3,274 | 76.0% | 59 min | 1.62% | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 3,149 | 75.4% | 72 min | 3.87% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,637 | 75.1% | 146 min | 2.93% | B |
| American Airlines | 114,948 | 74.9% | 70 min | 1.89% | C |
| Frontier Airlines | 2,956 | 68.8% | 96 min | 3.52% | C− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 3.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Route by route
Where PSA Airlines flies from CLT
PSA Airlines operates 25 routes out of CLT with enough volume to report. Route records inside one carrier at one airport still spread widely, because a short shuttle and a transcontinental have very different exposure to a late inbound.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLT to SAV · Savannah | 1,467 | 78.0% | 74 min | 1.91% | B |
| CLT to LEX · Lexington | 1,422 | 76.5% | 68 min | 2.25% | B |
| CLT to CAK · Akron | 1,373 | 71.2% | 78 min | 1.46% | C |
| CLT to HPN · White Plains | 1,347 | 74.5% | 76 min | 2.97% | C |
| CLT to DAY · Dayton | 1,321 | 73.9% | 82 min | 1.29% | C |
| CLT to ATL · Atlanta | 1,301 | 76.8% | 66 min | 2.61% | B |
| CLT to PNS · Pensacola | 1,191 | 73.5% | 76 min | 2.02% | C |
| CLT to CRW · Charleston | 1,174 | 74.5% | 69 min | 3.32% | C− |
| CLT to BHM · Birmingham | 1,163 | 82.4% | 65 min | 1.81% | B |
| CLT to DAB · Daytona Beach | 1,143 | 77.9% | 59 min | 3.06% | B− |
| CLT to MLB · Melbourne | 1,131 | 79.2% | 72 min | 2.56% | B |
| CLT to IAD · Washington | 1,120 | 79.1% | 67 min | 3.30% | B− |
| CLT to GSP · Greer | 1,114 | 65.8% | 78 min | 1.71% | C |
| CLT to SBN · South Bend | 1,033 | 76.9% | 65 min | 3.00% | B |
| CLT to ECP · Panama City | 1,020 | 80.6% | 75 min | 1.86% | B |
| CLT to ORF · Norfolk | 942 | 70.0% | 74 min | 1.59% | C |
| CLT to MHT · Manchester | 913 | 77.8% | 75 min | 3.29% | B− |
| CLT to MYR · Myrtle Beach | 892 | 78.6% | 62 min | 2.91% | B |
| CLT to CVG · Cincinnati | 862 | 71.0% | 75 min | 1.86% | C |
| CLT to ABE · Allentown | 852 | 76.9% | 65 min | 3.99% | B− |
| CLT to CMH · Columbus | 800 | 79.2% | 69 min | 2.00% | B |
| CLT to AVP · Avoca | 743 | 83.4% | 57 min | 1.88% | B |
| CLT to GPT · Gulfport | 733 | 79.4% | 78 min | 2.32% | B |
| CLT to PIA · Peoria | 715 | 75.8% | 76 min | 4.06% | B− |
| CLT to SDF · Louisville | 712 | 77.0% | 63 min | 1.12% | B |
Departure window
Best time of day for this operation
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am1,382 flights86.6%
- 8am–11am7,423 flights87.0%
- 11am–2pm7,132 flights83.2%
- 2pm–5pm9,342 flights74.6%
- 5pm–8pm5,557 flights68.8%
- 8pm–5am9,072 flights69.6%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.0% of the time, against 68.8% for the evening window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
June is the worst month at 65.5% on time, 22 points below October, the best at 87.4%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 629,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.
Cancellations run at 2.50%, against 1.80% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.2% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
39,908 flights sit behind these numbers, which is a large enough sample that the headline rate is not moving on noise. Where a sub-group falls below 30 flights the site shows a dash instead of a percentage.
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. October runs 87.4% on time and June 65.5%, a swing of 22 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else.
Common questions
PSA Airlines at CLT
How often is PSA Airlines at CLT delayed?
Roughly one flight in four arrive at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 23.1% of the 39,908 flights in this analysis, against 22.6% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on PSA Airlines at CLT?
Delta Air Lines leads at 86.2% on time across 5,543 flights. Frontier Airlines is at the other end on 68.8%, a gap of 17 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on PSA Airlines at CLT?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 87.0% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 68.8%, 18 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on PSA Airlines at CLT?
June is the weakest month at 65.5% on time, compared with 87.4% in October. Across the year that is 22 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, June 2025 to May 2026. Updated monthly. How this data is collected.