Carrier route record
OHCLT→CMH
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Columbus
- Flights
- 739
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 36%
- 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 CMH lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 739 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on CLT to CMH from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 728 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.49%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.2%
Every carrier on CLT to CMH, 2,043 flights
These figures cover 739 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on CLT to CMH
PSA flew 739 of the 2,043 flights on CLT to CMH, about 36% of it. Its 78.7% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 97.1% to American at 74.2%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 34 | 97.1% | 48 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 80.0% | 52 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 739 | 78.7% | 64 min | 1.49% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,265 | 74.2% | 70 min | 1.90% | C |
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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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am83 flights90.4%
- 8am–11am58 flights86.2%
- 11am–2pm272 flights79.3%
- 2pm–5pm320 flights73.7%
- 5pm–8pm6 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.4% of the time, against 73.7% for the afternoon window. That is 17 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 320 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to CMH through the year
July is the worst month at 66.3% on time, 19 points below September, the best at 85.7%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. May was the busiest month here, with 94 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 72.9%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to CMH runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to CMH often beats the schedule: 208 of 728 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 155 late arrivals split 55 under half an hour, 45 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 55 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early208 flights28.6%
- Within 15 min365 flights50.1%
- 15–29 min late55 flights7.6%
- 30–59 min late45 flights6.2%
- 1–2 hours late32 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late23 flights3.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 728 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
43 of 176 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 22 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to CMH
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 July 2026, 5 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2026 | 5 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 July 2026 | 4 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 July 2026 | 3 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 December 2025 | 3 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 May 2026 | 3 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 9,912 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,912 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 9,912 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,424 of the 9,912 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.49% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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 347 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 runs 79.5% on time across 739 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 739 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 CMH
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 739 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 78.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 728 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to CMH, every carrier
- PSA on CMH to CLT, the return leg
- American Airlines on CLT to CMH74.2%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.