Flight number record
OH 5617
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Pensacola
- Route
- CLT → PNS
- Departs
- 20:15
- Flights
- 252
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. 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 77.3%, so OH 5617 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 70 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
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 1.89%
1 hour+ late
16.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 252 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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.
- Departs 20:1598 flights38.9%
- Departs 19:3137 flights14.7%
- Departs 19:3029 flights11.5%
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 20:15 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, 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.
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Against the route
OH 5617 next to CLT to PNS
Every carrier on CLT to PNS combined arrived on time 75.0% of the time across 1,846 flights, so OH 5617 is 5 points behind it. PSA flew 1,199 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.9% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 73.5%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| 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 | 1,199 | 71.9% | 75 min | 2.42% | C |
| All carriers on CLT–PNS | 1,846 | 75.0% | 78 min | 1.95% | B |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 242,979 | 73.5% | 96 min | 4.80% | 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late OH 5617 runs when it is late
OH 5617 often beats the schedule: 71 of 246 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When OH 5617 is late it tends to be very late: 40 of its 73 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 14 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early71 flights28.9%
- Within 15 min102 flights41.5%
- 15–29 min late15 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late18 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late26 flights10.6%
- 2+ hours late14 flights5.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 246 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 63 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 15 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at PNS.
The worst days
Worst days for OH 5617
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 February 2026, 11 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 February 2026 | 11 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 April 2026 | 11 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 3 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 May 2026 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
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.
- 35%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. 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 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
16.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including DCA to ECP (34), ECP to DCA (34) and CLT to ROA (15), 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.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to PNS, every carrier and departure
- PNS to CLT, the return direction
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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.