Carrier route record

OHCLT→ILM

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Wilmington

Flights: 326
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 18%
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 ILM 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 326 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

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

On time

80.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 321 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.53%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.3%

Every carrier on CLT to ILM, 1,840 flights

These figures cover 326 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% 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 ILM

PSA flew 326 of the 1,840 flights on CLT to ILM, about 18% of it. Its 80.1% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 80.1% 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.

On-time performance by carrier on CLT to ILM
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	326	80.1%	75 min	1.53%	B
American Airlines	1,513	78.0%	68 min	1.92%	B
Envoy Airthin sample	1	0.0%	75 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 24 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–8am3 flights—
8am–11am104 flights92.2%
11am–2pm27 flights—
2pm–5pm9 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 202581 flights85.2%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights79.1%
Jan–Mar 2026106 flights80.2%
Apr–Jun 202648 flights72.9%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 80.1% on time across 326 flights.

PSA on CLT to ILM did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 85.2% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 72.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 82 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 86.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 66.7%. 20 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 61% of the 4,792 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
61%
Carrier
31%
National Airspace System
6%
Extreme weather
2%

61% 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 4,792 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 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 4,792 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 1.53% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

8.7% 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 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 86.2% on time across 324 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. 326 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. 326 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 80.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 321 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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