Carrier route record
OHAVL→CLT
PSA Airlines · Asheville to Charlotte
- Flights
- 427
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 49%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on AVL to CLT earns an A−. 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 427 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's AVL to CLT record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 412 completed flights
Avg delay
107 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.51%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
83.0%
Every carrier on AVL to CLT, 870 flights
These figures cover 427 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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.
Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on AVL to CLT
PSA flew 427 of the 870 flights on AVL to CLT, about 49% of it. Its 85.0% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 83.0%. 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 80.9%. One 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) | 427 | 85.0% | 107 min | 3.51% | A− |
| American Airlines | 419 | 80.9% | 97 min | 1.19% | B |
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 15 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–8am242 flights89.5%
- 8am–11am20 flights—
- 11am–2pm32 flights84.4%
- 2pm–5pm59 flights82.8%
- 5pm–8pm70 flights74.3%
- 8pm–5am4 flights—
Scale runs 65% 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 74.3% for the evening window. That is 15 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 242 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on AVL to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025138 flights87.2%
- Oct–Dec 2025180 flights82.5%
- Jan–Mar 202668 flights84.1%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights89.7%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 85.0% on time across 427 flights.
Quarter by quarter PSA on AVL to CLT held fairly steady: 87.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 80.3%. 9 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. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 6,646 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.
- 46%Carrier
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
39% 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 6,646 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 6,646 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, 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 3,061 of the 6,646 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.51%, against 1.81% 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
8.3% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 76.3% on time across 427 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 427 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 3.51% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two 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. 412 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.