Carrier route record

OHCLT→ECP

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Panama City

Flights: 984
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 86%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on CLT to ECP 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 a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 984 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on CLT to ECP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

80.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 967 completed flights

Avg delay

74 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.32%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.5%

Every carrier on CLT to ECP, 1,147 flights

These figures cover 984 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 ECP

PSA flew 984 of the 1,147 flights on CLT to ECP, most of the route. Its 80.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 92.0% to PSA at 80.4%. 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 ECP
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	50	92.0%	67 min	0.00%	A+
Envoy Airthin sample	113	86.6%	102 min	0.88%	A+
PSA Airlines (this page)	984	80.4%	74 min	1.32%	B

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 27 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–8am5 flights—
8am–11am312 flights87.3%
11am–2pm155 flights83.8%
2pm–5pm167 flights82.5%
5pm–8pm129 flights60.6%
8pm–5am216 flights77.9%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.6% on time, against 87.3% for the 8am–11am 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 312 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to ECP through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.October best, June worst

June is the worst month at 65.2% on time, 29 points below October, the best at 93.8%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 113 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.4%. 18 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 14,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
41%
Carrier
34%
Extreme weather
14%
National Airspace System
11%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 14,101 reported delay minutes.

41% 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 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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.

Cancellations sit at 1.32% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.41%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.1% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 437 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.4% on time across 983 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. 984 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 ECP

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 984 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 80.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 967 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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