Carrier route record
OHCLT→BNA
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Nashville
- Flights
- 531
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on CLT to BNA lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About 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 531 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 717 at 75.2% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on CLT to BNA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 519 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.07%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.1%
Every carrier on CLT to BNA, 3,525 flights
These figures cover 531 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 BNA
PSA flew 531 of the 3,525 flights on CLT to BNA, about 15% of it. Its 80.7% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 100.0% to American at 75.1%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 11 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 26 | 84.6% | 78 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 6 | 83.3% | 219 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 531 | 80.7% | 58 min | 2.07% | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 717 | 75.2% | 49 min | 1.67% | B |
| American Airlines | 2,234 | 75.1% | 71 min | 1.52% | B |
No carrier stands out. Southwest tops the table at 75.2%, half a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 531 flights.
- 5am–8am83 flights80.2%
- 8am–11am133 flights85.6%
- 11am–2pm124 flights86.1%
- 2pm–5pm166 flights76.4%
- 5pm–8pm25 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 86.1% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 76.4%. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 166 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to BNA through the year
December is the weak month at 61.0% on time, against 88.8% in August. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.3% on time and Thursday the weakest at 74.6%. 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 54% of the 5,794 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.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
- 1%Extreme weather
54% 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 5,794 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 54 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 5,794 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.07% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.19%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.5% 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 328 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 runs 77.8% on time across 531 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 531 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 BNA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 531 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 80.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 519 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to BNA, every carrier
- PSA on BNA to CLT, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on CLT to BNA75.2%
- American Airlines on CLT to BNA75.1%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) 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.