Carrier performance at one airport
OH→CLT
PSA Airlines at Charlotte Douglas International
- Departures
- 39,317
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Routes
- 25
- Rank here
- #5 of 10
PSA Airlines at Charlotte lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. 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 39,317 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 5,503 at 86.7% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, PSA Airlines runs about a point ahead of the 76.7% 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
77.6%
38,270 completed departures
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
2.39%
At CLT, this carrier only
Rank here
#5
Of 10 carriers clearing the floor at CLT
These figures cover 39,000 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% 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 86.7% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 69.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,069 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 5,503 | 86.7% | 82 min | 1.33% | A |
| Envoy Air | 5,833 | 83.8% | 57 min | 1.75% | B |
| Republic Airways | 3,884 | 82.4% | 82 min | 3.66% | B− |
| United Airlines | 2,576 | 78.9% | 95 min | 2.02% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 39,317 | 77.6% | 69 min | 2.39% | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 3,255 | 76.8% | 56 min | 1.69% | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 2,793 | 75.7% | 72 min | 4.30% | B− |
| American Airlines | 114,400 | 75.5% | 69 min | 1.77% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,775 | 75.3% | 149 min | 2.87% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 3,069 | 69.8% | 93 min | 3.39% | C− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 4.3% 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 | 1,450 | 78.4% | 69 min | 2.07% | B |
| CLT to CAK · Akron | 1,400 | 71.7% | 75 min | 1.79% | C |
| CLT to LEX · Lexington | 1,384 | 78.3% | 60 min | 1.88% | B |
| CLT to HPN · White Plains | 1,343 | 74.4% | 74 min | 2.76% | C |
| CLT to DAY · Dayton | 1,340 | 74.6% | 80 min | 1.27% | C |
| CLT to ATL · Atlanta | 1,310 | 78.2% | 66 min | 2.37% | B |
| CLT to PNS · Pensacola | 1,191 | 73.7% | 75 min | 2.18% | C |
| CLT to CRW · Charleston | 1,158 | 75.6% | 64 min | 3.54% | B− |
| CLT to DAB · Daytona Beach | 1,136 | 79.6% | 62 min | 3.26% | B− |
| CLT to MLB · Melbourne | 1,131 | 80.4% | 74 min | 2.48% | B |
| CLT to BHM · Birmingham | 1,114 | 83.7% | 64 min | 1.71% | B |
| CLT to GSP · Greer | 1,090 | 66.9% | 77 min | 1.56% | C |
| CLT to IAD · Washington | 1,031 | 81.0% | 64 min | 3.39% | B− |
| CLT to SBN · South Bend | 1,029 | 77.9% | 62 min | 2.92% | B |
| CLT to ECP · Panama City | 984 | 80.4% | 74 min | 1.32% | B |
| CLT to ORF · Norfolk | 951 | 71.0% | 70 min | 1.58% | C |
| CLT to MHT · Manchester | 917 | 78.2% | 75 min | 2.94% | B |
| CLT to ABE · Allentown | 852 | 77.8% | 62 min | 3.29% | B− |
| CLT to MYR · Myrtle Beach | 842 | 80.5% | 61 min | 2.61% | B |
| CLT to CVG · Cincinnati | 815 | 72.7% | 72 min | 1.84% | C |
| CLT to CMH · Columbus | 799 | 80.1% | 63 min | 1.75% | B |
| CLT to SDF · Louisville | 728 | 77.3% | 62 min | 1.24% | B |
| CLT to PIA · Peoria | 717 | 76.9% | 78 min | 3.77% | B− |
| CLT to AVP · Avoca | 717 | 83.7% | 58 min | 1.26% | B |
| CLT to BTR · Baton Rouge | 702 | 75.1% | 73 min | 1.57% | 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 17 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am1,365 flights86.8%
- 8am–11am7,316 flights86.7%
- 11am–2pm6,983 flights83.3%
- 2pm–5pm9,215 flights75.0%
- 5pm–8pm5,472 flights70.3%
- 8pm–5am8,966 flights71.3%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 86.8% of the time, against 70.3% for the evening window. That is 17 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 9,215 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
December is the weak month at 67.6% on time, against 87.4% in October. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. July was the busiest month here, with 3,723 flights.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
49% 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 592,000 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. The split is drawn from 591,656 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.39% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route are the a little over an hour kind, which a normal layover absorbs.
39,317 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 December 67.6%, a swing of 20 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 38,270 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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 22.4% of the 39,317 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% 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 86.7% on time across 5,503 flights. Frontier Airlines is at the other end on 69.8%, 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 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 86.8% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 70.3%, 17 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 December delays on PSA Airlines at CLT?
December is the weakest month at 67.6% on time, compared with 87.4% in October. Across the year that is 20 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Updated monthly. How this data is collected.