Carrier route record

OHCLT→CLE

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Cleveland

Flights: 314
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 17%
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 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, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 314 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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

74.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 294 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.05%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

74.3%

Every carrier on CLT to CLE, 1,799 flights

These figures cover 314 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on CLT to CLE

PSA flew 314 of the 1,799 flights on CLT to CLE, about 17% of it. Its 74.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 78.2% to Envoy at 16.7%. 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	80	78.2%	99 min	2.50%	B
American Airlines	1,399	74.4%	72 min	1.14%	C
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	314	74.1%	65 min	6.05%	C−
Envoy Airthin sample	6	16.7%	52 min	0.00%	F+

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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am32 flights96.7%
8am–11am59 flights88.5%
11am–2pm26 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

Jul–Sep 202510 flights—
Oct–Dec 2025121 flights76.9%
Jan–Mar 2026130 flights72.2%
Apr–Jun 202653 flights71.7%

Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 74.1% on time across 314 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%. 22 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 59% of the 4,912 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
59%
Carrier
22%
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. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,912 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 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 4,912 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 6.05%, against 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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 70.2% on time across 313 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. 314 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 6.05% 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. 294 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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