Carrier route record
OHCLT→ILM
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Wilmington
- Flights
- 343
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- 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 ILM lands a B, 2 points 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 343 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on CLT to ILM from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.33%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.2%
Every carrier on CLT to ILM, 1,828 flights
These figures cover 343 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 ILM
PSA flew 343 of the 1,828 flights on CLT to ILM, about 19% of it. Its 79.7% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 79.7% to Envoy at 0.0%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 343 | 79.7% | 73 min | 2.33% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,484 | 76.6% | 72 min | 1.95% | B |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 1 | 0.0% | 75 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 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am3 flights—
- 8am–11am104 flights92.2%
- 11am–2pm41 flights84.2%
- 2pm–5pm12 flights—
- 5pm–8pm133 flights68.2%
- 8pm–5am50 flights82.0%
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 92.2% of the time, against 68.2% for the evening window. That is 24 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 133 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to ILM through the year
- Jul–Sep 202563 flights82.5%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights79.1%
- Jan–Mar 2026106 flights80.2%
- Apr–Jun 202648 flights72.9%
- Jul–Sep 202635 flights84.4%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 79.7% on time across 343 flights.
PSA on CLT to ILM did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 84.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 72.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 69 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 69.0%, a spread of 19 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to ILM runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to ILM often beats the schedule: 144 of 335 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 68 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early144 flights43.0%
- Within 15 min123 flights36.7%
- 15–29 min late20 flights6.0%
- 30–59 min late20 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late10 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 335 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 70 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to ILM
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 December 2025, 11 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 December 2025 | 11 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 February 2026 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 September 2025 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 February 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 October 2025 | 2 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 4,939 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,939 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. The split is drawn from 4,939 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 92.2% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.33% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.4% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 185 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 85.6% on time across 341 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 343 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 ILM
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 343 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 79.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 335 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to ILM, every carrier
- PSA on ILM to CLT, the return leg
- American Airlines on CLT to ILM76.6%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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.