Carrier route record
OHATL→CLT
PSA Airlines · Atlanta to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,311
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 30%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on ATL to CLT lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,311 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's ATL to CLT record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 42 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,279 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.44%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
81.1%
Every carrier on ATL to CLT, 4,408 flights
These figures cover 1,311 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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.
Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on ATL to CLT
PSA flew 1,311 of the 4,408 flights on ATL to CLT, about 30% of it. Its 81.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 81.8% to Envoy at 74.4%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 1,311 | 81.8% | 95 min | 2.44% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 2,610 | 81.3% | 60 min | 1.15% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 309 | 80.7% | 108 min | 2.59% | B |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 178 | 74.4% | 44 min | 3.37% | C− |
Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 31 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am183 flights89.4%
- 8am–11am344 flights89.2%
- 11am–2pm221 flights87.1%
- 2pm–5pm337 flights75.3%
- 5pm–8pm170 flights72.1%
- 8pm–5am56 flights58.9%
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 58.9% on time, against 89.4% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 344 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on ATL to CLT through the year
December is the weak month at 72.2% on time, against 92.9% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. June was the busiest month here, with 150 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 78.1%. 7 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 22,000 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.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
59% 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 22,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 27 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 22,089 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.4% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.44% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.4% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 226 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.2% on time across 1,310 flights, 4 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 4 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,311 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking PSA on ATL to CLT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 92.9% on time and December 72.2%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 1,279 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to CLT, every carrier
- PSA on CLT to ATL, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on ATL to CLT81.3%
- American Airlines on ATL to CLT80.7%
- Envoy Air on ATL to CLT74.4%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.