Flight number record

OH 5429

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Pensacola

Route: CLT → PNS
Departs: 18:16
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5429, check with PSA Airlines. PSA Airlines flies under contract for larger airlines, so a ticket for this flight may show a different airline code and number.

OH 5429 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5429 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 93 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.65%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

13.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.8% 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.

Schedule

When OH 5429 flies

OH 5429 flies CLT to PNS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:16, used on 41 of 363 flights, with 17:40 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:1641 flights11.3%
Departs 17:4037 flights10.2%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 18:16 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and OH 5429 runs level with that at 68.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

OH 5429 next to CLT to PNS

Every carrier on CLT to PNS combined arrived on time 77.0% of the time across 1,933 flights, so OH 5429 is 9 points behind it. PSA flew 1,191 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.7% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

OH 5429 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OH 5429thin sample	363	68.3%	81 min	1.65%	C
All PSA Airlines on CLT–PNS	1,191	73.7%	75 min	2.18%	C
All carriers on CLT–PNS	1,933	77.0%	74 min	1.81%	B
PSA Airlines, whole network	241,957	74.6%	94 min	4.34%	C−

Across the year

OH 5429 quarter by quarter

OH 5429 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 77.8% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 52.8%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 91 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights67.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights77.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights52.8%

Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OH 5429 did best on Wednesday at 78.8% on time and worst on Thursday at 52.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OH 5429 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 9,122 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
51%
Carrier
28%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
5%
Security
0%

51% 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 9,122 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 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 9,122 delay minutes reported on OH 5429.

Cancellations sit at 1.65% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 13.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.

Every one of the 363 flights under OH 5429 in the data flew CLT to PNS. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 363 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking OH 5429

For a booking, OH 5429 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 13.8% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

Where to go next

A flight number here means PSA Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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