Flight number record

OH 5617

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Pensacola

Route: CLT → PNS
Departs: 20:15
Flights: 252
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5617, 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 5617 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5617 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 73 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 246 completed flights

Avg delay

88 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.38%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

16.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 252 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.3% 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 5617 flies

OH 5617 flies CLT to PNS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:15, used on 98 of 252 flights, with 19:31 (37 flights) and 19:30 (29 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:1598 flights38.9%
Departs 19:3137 flights14.7%
Departs 19:3029 flights11.5%

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 20:15 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and OH 5617 runs level with that at 70.3%. 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 5617 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 5617 is 7 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 4 points.

OH 5617 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OH 5617thin sample	252	70.3%	88 min	2.38%	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 5617 quarter by quarter

OH 5617 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 77.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 56.0%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 84 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 202528 flights—
Oct–Dec 202588 flights77.0%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights71.6%
Apr–Jun 202650 flights56.0%

Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OH 5617 did best on Monday at 81.1% on time and worst on Friday at 61.1%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OH 5617 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,416 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
20%
Extreme weather
11%

The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, 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 2,255 of the 6,416 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,416 delay minutes reported on OH 5617.

Cancellations sit at 2.38% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

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. 16.3% 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.

The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including BUF to PHL (32), ECP to DCA (6) and DCA to ECP (6), but none flew often enough under OH 5617 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CLT to PNS only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 252 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 5617

For a booking, OH 5617 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.3% 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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