Carrier performance at one airport
OH→CLT
PSA Airlines at Charlotte Douglas International
- Departures
- 38,800
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Routes
- 25
- Rank here
- #7 of 10
PSA Airlines at Charlotte sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 38,800 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 5,482 at 85.6% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, PSA Airlines runs about a point behind the 76.1% 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
75.2%
37,660 completed departures
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
2.64%
At CLT, this carrier only
Rank here
#7
Of 10 carriers clearing the floor at CLT
These figures cover 39,000 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Against the competition
Every carrier at CLT, ranked
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 85.6% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 68.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,341 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 5,482 | 85.6% | 84 min | 1.37% | A |
| Envoy Air | 5,813 | 83.4% | 60 min | 1.72% | B |
| United Airlines | 2,265 | 81.8% | 84 min | 1.77% | B |
| Republic Airways | 3,975 | 81.5% | 88 min | 4.28% | B− |
| Southwest Airlines | 3,248 | 76.7% | 55 min | 1.63% | B |
| American Airlines | 113,776 | 75.5% | 70 min | 1.70% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 38,800 | 75.2% | 73 min | 2.64% | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 2,106 | 74.6% | 68 min | 5.27% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 2,037 | 74.2% | 148 min | 2.95% | C |
| Frontier Airlines | 3,341 | 68.3% | 98 min | 4.49% | C− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 5.3% 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 | 1,460 | 75.0% | 78 min | 2.26% | B |
| CLT to CAK · Akron | 1,421 | 71.1% | 77 min | 2.04% | C |
| CLT to DAY · Dayton | 1,398 | 72.2% | 90 min | 1.43% | C |
| CLT to ATL · Atlanta | 1,378 | 73.3% | 73 min | 2.83% | C |
| CLT to LEX · Lexington | 1,359 | 75.5% | 67 min | 2.35% | B |
| CLT to HPN · White Plains | 1,345 | 73.1% | 77 min | 3.12% | C− |
| CLT to PNS · Pensacola | 1,199 | 71.9% | 75 min | 2.42% | C |
| CLT to DAB · Daytona Beach | 1,135 | 78.4% | 65 min | 3.35% | B− |
| CLT to CRW · Charleston | 1,134 | 73.1% | 63 min | 3.97% | C− |
| CLT to MLB · Melbourne | 1,114 | 78.8% | 72 min | 2.96% | B |
| CLT to GSP · Greer | 1,108 | 64.9% | 83 min | 1.99% | D |
| CLT to BHM · Birmingham | 1,069 | 79.0% | 71 min | 1.87% | B |
| CLT to SBN · South Bend | 1,028 | 75.1% | 65 min | 3.11% | B− |
| CLT to ORF · Norfolk | 997 | 68.9% | 75 min | 1.50% | C |
| CLT to IAD · Washington | 967 | 81.5% | 62 min | 3.21% | B− |
| CLT to ECP · Panama City | 960 | 75.0% | 75 min | 1.35% | B |
| CLT to MHT · Manchester | 944 | 77.4% | 78 min | 3.07% | B− |
| CLT to ABE · Allentown | 833 | 76.6% | 70 min | 3.60% | B− |
| CLT to MYR · Myrtle Beach | 802 | 80.1% | 64 min | 2.74% | B |
| CLT to CVG · Cincinnati | 757 | 74.8% | 71 min | 1.98% | C |
| CLT to CMH · Columbus | 739 | 78.7% | 64 min | 1.49% | B |
| CLT to PIA · Peoria | 718 | 73.0% | 80 min | 3.48% | C− |
| CLT to SDF · Louisville | 712 | 74.8% | 70 min | 2.25% | C |
| CLT to BTR · Baton Rouge | 705 | 73.5% | 76 min | 1.42% | C |
| CLT to AVP · Avoca | 696 | 81.2% | 65 min | 1.15% | B |
Flight by flight
PSA Airlines flight numbers from CLT
13 PSA Airlines flight numbers leaving CLT flew their main route often enough to have a record of their own. Grouped by destination.
- OH 5184to CAK 20:3264.3%
- OH 5263to CRW 22:4070.3%
- OH 5174to DAY 20:2060.7%
- OH 5435to DAY 18:3167.0%
- OH 5180to HPN 11:0580.0%
- OH 5431to HPN 07:2383.8%
- OH 5606to HPN 14:4969.6%
- OH 5364to MLB 22:3574.3%
- OH 5622to ORF 20:2465.2%
- OH 5451to PIA 22:4074.3%
- OH 5429to PNS 18:1665.7%
- OH 5617to PNS 20:1570.3%
- OH 5382to SAV 20:2666.6%
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 20 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am1,299 flights87.1%
- 8am–11am7,302 flights85.7%
- 11am–2pm6,774 flights81.0%
- 2pm–5pm9,089 flights72.4%
- 5pm–8pm5,401 flights67.2%
- 8pm–5am8,935 flights68.2%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.1% of the time, against 67.2% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 9,089 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
July is the worst month at 59.6% on time, 28 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. September was the busiest month here, with 3,567 flights.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 678,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 677,875 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.64%, against 1.89% 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.
9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
38,800 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 July 59.6%, a swing of 28 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 37,660 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
PSA Airlines at CLT
How often is PSA Airlines at CLT delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 24.8% of the 38,800 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% 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 85.6% on time across 5,482 flights. Frontier Airlines is at the other end on 68.3%, 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 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 87.1% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 67.2%, 20 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 July delays on PSA Airlines at CLT?
July is the weakest month at 59.6% on time, compared with 87.4% in October. Across the year that is 28 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.