Carrier route record

OHCLT→LIT

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Little Rock

Flights: 427
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 34%
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 LIT lands a B−, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 427 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's CLT to LIT record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 45 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 407 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.68%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

80.5%

Every carrier on CLT to LIT, 1,263 flights

These figures cover 427 flights between September 2025 and August 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.

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Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on CLT to LIT

PSA flew 427 of the 1,263 flights on CLT to LIT, about 34% of it. Its 81.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.4% to SkyWest at 74.3%. 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 LIT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	41	85.4%	32 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines (this page)	427	81.8%	62 min	4.68%	B−
Envoy Air	654	80.7%	62 min	1.22%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	141	74.3%	136 min	2.84%	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 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am—
8am–11am127 flights90.6%
11am–2pm118 flights82.1%
2pm–5pm172 flights77.4%
5pm–8pm4 flights—
8pm–5am6 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.6% of the time, against 77.4% for the afternoon window. That is 13 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 172 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to LIT through the year

Jul–Sep 202529 flights—
Oct–Dec 2025123 flights79.0%
Jan–Mar 2026134 flights84.9%
Apr–Jun 2026106 flights84.9%
Jul–Sep 202635 flights67.6%

Scale runs 60% 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 81.8% on time across 427 flights.

PSA on CLT to LIT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 84.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 67.6%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 107 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 91.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 60.0%, a spread of 32 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late PSA on CLT to LIT runs when it is late

PSA on CLT to LIT often beats the schedule: 154 of 407 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 74 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.

15+ min early154 flights37.8%
Within 15 min179 flights44.0%
15–29 min late26 flights6.4%
30–59 min late20 flights4.9%
1–2 hours late21 flights5.2%
2+ hours late7 flights1.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 407 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

22 of 81 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for PSA on CLT to LIT

The latest arrival of the period was on 20 June 2026, 4 hours 53 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.

The latest arrivals of PSA on CLT to LIT in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
20 June 2026	4 hours 53 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
6 May 2026	4 hours 12 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
12 March 2026	3 hours 37 minutes	Extreme weather
19 October 2025	3 hours 7 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
7 May 2026	2 hours 38 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 4,595 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
56%
Carrier
22%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
7%

56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,595 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 4,595 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 90.6% on time here.

Cancellations run at 4.68%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.9% 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.

The 640 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.

The return leg runs 80.9% on time across 427 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. 427 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 LIT

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.68% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 407 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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