Carrier route record
OHCLT→AVL
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Asheville
- 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 CLT to AVL sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 422 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on CLT to AVL runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 404 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.27%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.9%
Every carrier on CLT to AVL, 757 flights
These figures cover 422 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.9% 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 CLT to AVL
PSA flew 422 of the 757 flights on CLT to AVL, most of the route. Its 71.0% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 90.5% to PSA at 71.0%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 24 | 90.5% | 30 min | 12.50% | A− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 311 | 76.5% | 90 min | 1.29% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 422 | 71.0% | 76 min | 4.27% | C− |
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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 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm69 flights80.9%
- 2pm–5pm25 flights—
- 5pm–8pm81 flights69.1%
- 8pm–5am247 flights67.8%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 80.9% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 67.8%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 247 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to AVL through the year
- Jul–Sep 202548 flights87.5%
- Oct–Dec 2025180 flights77.4%
- Jan–Mar 202667 flights74.6%
- Apr–Jun 202642 flights57.9%
- Jul–Sep 202685 flights50.0%
Scale runs 40% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 71.0% on time across 422 flights.
PSA on CLT to AVL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 87.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 50.0%, a swing of 38 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 87.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 54.2%, a spread of 33 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to AVL runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to AVL often beats the schedule: 117 of 404 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 117 late arrivals split 36 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 52 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights29.0%
- Within 15 min170 flights42.1%
- 15–29 min late36 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late29 flights7.2%
- 1–2 hours late36 flights8.9%
- 2+ hours late16 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 404 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 118 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 20 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to AVL
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 December 2025, 9 hours 24 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 December 2025 | 9 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 8 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 July 2026 | 8 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 December 2025 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 March 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 8,938 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,938 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 8,938 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.27%, 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
12.9% 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.5% on time across 422 flights, 14 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 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 CLT to AVL
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.27% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 404 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.