Carrier route record

OHCLT→CLE

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Cleveland

Flights: 304
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 17%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on CLT to CLE sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 304 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on CLT to CLE from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

74.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 285 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.92%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

73.7%

Every carrier on CLT to CLE, 1,780 flights

These figures cover 304 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% 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 CLE

PSA flew 304 of the 1,780 flights on CLT to CLE, about 17% of it. Its 74.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 75.9% to Envoy at 30.0%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on CLT to CLE
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	60	75.9%	87 min	3.33%	B−
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	304	74.0%	66 min	5.92%	C−
American Airlines	1,406	73.8%	66 min	1.14%	C
Envoy Airthin sample	10	30.0%	63 min	0.00%	F+

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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 31 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am32 flights96.7%
8am–11am54 flights89.6%
11am–2pm21 flights—
2pm–5pm197 flights65.6%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 96.7% of the time, against 65.6% for the afternoon window. That is 31 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 197 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to CLE through the year

Oct–Dec 2025121 flights76.9%
Jan–Mar 2026130 flights72.2%
Apr–Jun 202653 flights71.7%

Scale runs 65% to 80%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 74.0% on time across 304 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on CLT to CLE held fairly steady: 76.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 72.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 71.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 61.4%, a spread of 22 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late PSA on CLT to CLE runs when it is late

The 74 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.

15+ min early60 flights21.1%
Within 15 min151 flights53.0%
15–29 min late22 flights7.7%
30–59 min late24 flights8.4%
1–2 hours late21 flights7.4%
2+ hours late7 flights2.5%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 285 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

10 of 60 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 24 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at CLE.

The worst days

Worst days for PSA on CLT to CLE

The latest arrival of the period was on 9 March 2026, 4 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.

The latest arrivals of PSA on CLT to CLE in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
9 March 2026	4 hours 53 minutes	Carrier
19 December 2025	4 hours 30 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
6 February 2026	3 hours 29 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
23 November 2025	3 hours 24 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
11 January 2026	3 hours 24 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 4,848 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
59%
Carrier
21%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
2%

59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,848 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 to one. The split is drawn from 4,848 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 96.7% on time here.

Cancellations run at 5.92%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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

9.8% 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 430 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.6% on time across 303 flights, 4 points below 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.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 304 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 CLE

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.92% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 285 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures