Carrier route record
OHCLT→ATL
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Atlanta
- Flights
- 1,310
- 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 CLT to ATL lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,310 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on CLT to ATL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,277 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.37%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
83.3%
Every carrier on CLT to ATL, 4,409 flights
These figures cover 1,310 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 CLT to ATL
PSA flew 1,310 of the 4,409 flights on CLT to ATL, about 30% of it. Its 78.2% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 87.2% to American at 70.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 2,611 | 87.2% | 80 min | 1.34% | A |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 177 | 84.2% | 49 min | 3.39% | B− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 1,310 | 78.2% | 66 min | 2.37% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 311 | 70.5% | 78 min | 2.57% | 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 22 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–8am185 flights75.4%
- 8am–11am238 flights91.3%
- 11am–2pm316 flights81.9%
- 2pm–5pm320 flights73.3%
- 5pm–8pm69 flights71.0%
- 8pm–5am182 flights69.1%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.3% of the time, against 69.1% for the overnight window. That is 22 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 320 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to ATL through the year
December is the weak month at 71.2% on time, against 88.8% 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 85.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.3%. 12 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 43% of the 18,000 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.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
43% 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 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 18,357 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.3% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.37% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.15%.
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 about an hour, 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.8% on time across 1,311 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,310 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 CLT to ATL
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 88.8% on time and December 71.2%, a swing of 18 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 1,277 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to ATL, every carrier
- PSA on ATL to CLT, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on CLT to ATL87.2%
- Envoy Air on CLT to ATL84.2%
- American Airlines on CLT to ATL70.5%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 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.