Carrier route record
OHCLT→CVG
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Cincinnati
- Flights
- 757
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on CLT to CVG 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 757 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on CLT to CVG from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 742 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.98%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.6%
Every carrier on CLT to CVG, 1,772 flights
These figures cover 757 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% 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 CVG
PSA flew 757 of the 1,772 flights on CLT to CVG, about 43% of it. Its 74.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 87.8% to American at 71.9%. One 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 | 54 | 87.8% | 68 min | 9.26% | A− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 757 | 74.8% | 71 min | 1.98% | C |
| American Airlines | 961 | 71.9% | 77 min | 1.66% | 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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am32 flights90.0%
- 8am–11am178 flights89.8%
- 11am–2pm270 flights73.1%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm156 flights71.3%
- 8pm–5am121 flights57.0%
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 57.0% on time, against 90.0% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 270 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to CVG through the year
December is the weak month at 58.7% on time, against 85.5% in October. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 118 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.4% on time and Thursday the weakest at 67.9%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to CVG runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to CVG often beats the schedule: 238 of 742 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 187 late arrivals split 50 under half an hour, 62 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 75 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early238 flights32.1%
- Within 15 min317 flights42.7%
- 15–29 min late50 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late62 flights8.4%
- 1–2 hours late45 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late30 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 742 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 179 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 20 made it up before arrival. 28 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to CVG
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 April 2026, 8 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 April 2026 | 8 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 January 2026 | 5 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 April 2026 | 4 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 February 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 May 2026 | 3 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 32 to one. The split is drawn from 13,181 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 90.0% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.98% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.1% 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 335 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 79.8% on time across 756 flights, 5 points above 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 757 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 CVG
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 757 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 74.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 742 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to CVG, every carrier
- PSA on CVG to CLT, the return leg
- American Airlines on CLT to CVG71.9%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.