Carrier route record
OHAVL→CLT
PSA Airlines · Asheville to Charlotte
- Flights
- 422
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 56%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on AVL to CLT earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.5 hours. That rests on 422 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's AVL to CLT record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 406 completed flights
Avg delay
149 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.79%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.8%
Every carrier on AVL to CLT, 759 flights
These figures cover 422 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on AVL to CLT
PSA flew 422 of the 759 flights on AVL to CLT, most of the route. Its 84.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.7% to American at 82.8%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 24 | 85.7% | 60 min | 12.50% | A− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 422 | 84.5% | 149 min | 3.79% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 313 | 82.8% | 106 min | 1.28% | B |
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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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am244 flights89.5%
- 8am–11am19 flights—
- 11am–2pm21 flights—
- 2pm–5pm59 flights82.8%
- 5pm–8pm79 flights70.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.5% of the time, against 70.9% for the evening window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 244 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on AVL to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202548 flights95.8%
- Oct–Dec 2025180 flights82.5%
- Jan–Mar 202668 flights84.1%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights89.7%
- Jul–Sep 202685 flights79.7%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 84.5% on time across 422 flights.
PSA on AVL to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 95.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 79.7%, a swing of 16 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.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 80.0%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on AVL to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on AVL to CLT often beats the schedule: 216 of 406 completed flights, 53%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When PSA on AVL to CLT is late it tends to be very late: 38 of its 63 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 24 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early216 flights53.2%
- Within 15 min127 flights31.3%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.0%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.2%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late24 flights5.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 406 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 69 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on AVL to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 August 2026, 29 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four 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 August 2026 | 29 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 July 2026 | 9 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 January 2026 | 7 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 September 2025 | 7 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 6 hours | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 9,414 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,414 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 9,414 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 89.5% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.79%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
9.4% 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.
At 91 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 71.0% on time across 422 flights, 14 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 14 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 422 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 PSA on AVL to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.79% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.5 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 406 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.