Flight number record
OH 5538
PSA Airlines · Gulfport to Charlotte
- Route
- GPT → CLT
- Departs
- 07:04
- Flights
- 281
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.4 hours. That rests on 281 flights, with a median arrival 19 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OH 5538's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 134 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 270 completed flights
Avg delay
145 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 281 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 19 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.
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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 71 of 281 flights, with 06:00 (37 flights) and 06:32 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0471 flights25.3%
- Departs 06:0037 flights13.2%
- Departs 06:3236 flights12.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
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 90.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
OH 5538 next to GPT to CLT
Every carrier on GPT to CLT combined arrived on time 84.9% of the time across 582 flights, so OH 5538 is 6 points ahead of it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 73.5%, which this flight beats by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5538thin sample | 281 | 90.7% | 145 min | 3.56% | A− |
| All PSA Airlines on GPT–CLT | 582 | 84.9% | 113 min | 3.26% | B− |
| All carriers on GPT–CLT | 582 | 84.9% | 113 min | 3.26% | B− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 242,979 | 73.5% | 96 min | 4.80% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5538 quarter by quarter
OH 5538 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 87.0%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 70 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 202530 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202632 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights91.1%
- Jul–Sep 202657 flights92.7%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5538 ranged from 84.6% on Monday to 95.1% on Tuesday. With about 40 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late OH 5538 runs when it is late
OH 5538 often beats the schedule: 175 of 270 completed flights, 65%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When OH 5538 is late it tends to be very late: 18 of its 25 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 13 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early175 flights64.8%
- Within 15 min70 flights25.9%
- 15–29 min late5 flights1.9%
- 30–59 min late2 flights0.7%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late13 flights4.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 270 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 22 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 0 made it up before arrival. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OH 5538
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 9 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 9 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 January 2026 | 7 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 May 2026 | 5 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 July 2026 | 3 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 November 2025 | 3 hours 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why OH 5538 runs late
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 3,622 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,622 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 3,622 delay minutes reported on OH 5538.
Cancellations run at 3.56%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
6.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.4 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.
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. 281 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: 3.56% of its 281 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.4 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.