Carrier route record

OHCLT→BHM

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Birmingham

Flights: 1,114
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 63%
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 BHM 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 1,114 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's CLT to BHM 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.

On time

83.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,093 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.71%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.8%

Every carrier on CLT to BHM, 1,778 flights

These figures cover 1,114 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 BHM

PSA flew 1,114 of the 1,778 flights on CLT to BHM, most of the route. Its 83.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 89.4% to American at 82.5%. Three 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 BHM
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	132	89.4%	118 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines (this page)	1,114	83.7%	64 min	1.71%	B
Envoy Airthin sample	197	82.7%	81 min	0.00%	B+
American Airlinesthin sample	335	82.5%	79 min	2.99%	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 20 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–8am98 flights90.6%
8am–11am222 flights94.5%
11am–2pm199 flights83.7%
2pm–5pm217 flights77.6%
5pm–8pm161 flights75.0%
8pm–5am217 flights82.0%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 94.5% of the time, against 75.0% for the evening window. That is 20 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 222 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to BHM through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.November best, December worst

December is the weak month at 70.9% on time, against 93.8% in November. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 133 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.7%. 13 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 53% of the 11,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
53%
Carrier
25%
Extreme weather
12%
National Airspace System
9%
Security
1%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 11,451 reported delay minutes.

53% 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 11,000 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.

Cancellations sit at 1.71% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.18%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.0% 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 350 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 runs 82.4% on time across 1,114 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

The sample behind these figures is 1,114 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 BHM

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. November runs 93.8% on time and December 70.9%, a swing of 23 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 1,093 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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.

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