Carrier route record

OHCLE→CLT

PSA Airlines · Cleveland to Charlotte

Flights: 303
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 17%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on CLE to CLT sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 303 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on CLE to CLT runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 77 extra late arrivals.

On time

69.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 283 completed flights

Avg delay

113 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.27%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

79.9%

Every carrier on CLE to CLT, 1,780 flights

These figures cover 303 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.1% 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 CLE to CLT

PSA flew 303 of the 1,780 flights on CLE to CLT, about 17% of it. Its 69.6% on time is 10 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 85.0% to Envoy at 20.0%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on CLE to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	60	85.0%	106 min	0.00%	A+
American Airlines	1,407	82.2%	100 min	1.35%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	303	69.6%	113 min	6.27%	C−
Envoy Airthin sample	10	20.0%	44 min	0.00%	F+

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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 28 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am—
8am–11am69 flights90.0%
11am–2pm16 flights—
2pm–5pm82 flights64.9%
5pm–8pm136 flights61.7%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 61.7% on time, against 90.0% for the 8am–11am 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 136 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLE to CLT through the year

Oct–Dec 2025120 flights69.0%
Jan–Mar 2026130 flights69.3%
Apr–Jun 202653 flights71.7%

Scale runs 60% to 75%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 69.6% on time across 303 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on CLE to CLT held fairly steady: 69.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 69.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 71.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 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 80.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 54.8%, a spread of 25 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late PSA on CLE to CLT runs when it is late

PSA on CLE to CLT often beats the schedule: 111 of 283 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 86 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 40 an hour or more.

15+ min early111 flights39.2%
Within 15 min86 flights30.4%
15–29 min late22 flights7.8%
30–59 min late24 flights8.5%
1–2 hours late26 flights9.2%
2+ hours late14 flights4.9%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 283 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 90 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 8 made it up before arrival. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for PSA on CLE to CLT

The latest arrival of the period was on 22 November 2025, 25 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across November, February, March and December, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of PSA on CLE to CLT in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
22 November 2025	25 hours 51 minutes	Carrier
6 February 2026	22 hours 16 minutes	Extreme weather
26 March 2026	17 hours 56 minutes	Extreme weather
9 March 2026	5 hours 16 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
8 December 2025	4 hours 5 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 9,745 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
52%
Carrier
24%
Extreme weather
18%
National Airspace System
5%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,745 reported delay minutes.

52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,745 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.

Cancellations run at 6.27%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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

14.1% 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 430 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.0% on time across 304 flights, 4 points above 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.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 303 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 CLE to CLT

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.27% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 283 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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