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Carrier route record

OHCLTAVP

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Avoca

Flights
717
Period
July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route
76%
Carriers
3
BGRADE

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

PSA on CLT to AVP lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six 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 717 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's CLT to AVP record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 61 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

Key figures

On time

83.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 707 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.26%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.0%

Every carrier on CLT to AVP, 947 flights

These figures cover 717 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on CLT to AVP

PSA flew 717 of the 947 flights on CLT to AVP, most of the route. Its 83.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 87.1% to American at 79.3%. 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 CLT to AVP
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Envoy Airthin sample3287.1%66 min3.12%A−
PSA Airlines (this page)71783.7%58 min1.26%B
American Airlinesthin sample19879.3%53 min6.06%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 14 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–8am
  • 8am–11am285 flights90.4%
  • 11am–2pm1 flights
  • 2pm–5pm187 flights82.3%
  • 5pm–8pm15 flights
  • 8pm–5am229 flights76.4%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.4% of the time, against 76.4% for the overnight window. That is 14 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 285 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to AVP through the year

On-time rate by calendar monthJ86F78M86A83M74JJ86A93S88ON66D
Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.September best, December worst

December is the weak month at 65.9% on time, against 93.3% 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. March was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 80.0%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

On-time rate by day of the week90.0Mon85.1Tue90.2Wed80.4Thu81.2Fri80.0Sat80.6Sun
Monday: 90.0 percent on time. Tuesday: 85.1 percent on time. Wednesday: 90.2 percent on time. Thursday: 80.4 percent on time. Friday: 81.2 percent on time. Saturday: 80.0 percent on time. Sunday: 80.6 percent on time

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 6,662 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.

  • Late-arriving aircraft
    48%
  • Carrier
    33%
  • National Airspace System
    11%
  • Extreme weather
    8%
  • Security
    0%

48% 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 6,662 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 6,662 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 90.4% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.26% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.14%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.4% 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.

The 509 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 89.5% on time across 717 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 717 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 AVP

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 717 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 83.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 707 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.