Flight number record
OH 5538
PSA Airlines · Gulfport to Charlotte
- Route
- GPT → CLT
- Departs
- 07:04
- Flights
- 286
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5538, 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 5538 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.5 hours. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 18 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OH 5538's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 123 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 277 completed flights
Avg delay
150 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.80%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 286 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 18 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Schedule
When OH 5538 flies
OH 5538 flies GPT to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:04, used on 41 of 286 flights, with 07:00 (40 flights) and 06:00 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:0441 flights14.3%
- Departs 07:0040 flights14.0%
- Departs 06:0037 flights12.9%
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 07:04 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and OH 5538 runs level with that at 89.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
OH 5538 next to GPT to CLT
Every carrier on GPT to CLT combined arrived on time 84.0% of the time across 673 flights, so OH 5538 is 6 points ahead of it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight beats by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5538thin sample | 286 | 89.9% | 150 min | 2.80% | A |
| All PSA Airlines on GPT–CLT | 673 | 84.0% | 113 min | 3.12% | B− |
| All carriers on GPT–CLT | 673 | 84.0% | 113 min | 3.12% | B− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5538 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OH 5538 held fairly steady: 92.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 91.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights92.4%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202632 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights91.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5538 did best on Friday at 94.9% on time and worst on Monday at 81.6%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5538 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 4,207 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.
- 52%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,199 of the 4,207 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,207 delay minutes reported on OH 5538.
Cancellations run at 2.80%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.8% 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 last about 2.5 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 577 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including DTW to PHL (54), PHL to DTW (53) and CHS to ORD (1), but none flew often enough under OH 5538 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to GPT to CLT only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 286 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 5538
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5538: 2.80% of its 286 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.5 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on-time record
- Every PSA Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.