Carrier route record
OHCLT→MEM
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Memphis
- Flights
- 379
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on CLT to MEM draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 379 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on CLT to MEM runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 106 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.96%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.8%
Every carrier on CLT to MEM, 1,737 flights
These figures cover 379 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 MEM
PSA flew 379 of the 1,737 flights on CLT to MEM, about 22% of it. Its 66.7% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 75.7% to PSA at 66.7%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 1,358 | 75.7% | 68 min | 1.55% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 379 | 66.7% | 61 min | 3.96% | 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 30 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am94 flights84.4%
- 11am–2pm27 flights—
- 2pm–5pm163 flights60.8%
- 5pm–8pm94 flights54.3%
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 54.3% on time, against 84.4% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 163 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to MEM through the year
- Jul–Sep 20252 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202543 flights83.7%
- Jan–Mar 2026131 flights74.2%
- Apr–Jun 202692 flights66.7%
- Jul–Sep 2026111 flights50.9%
Scale runs 40% 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 66.7% on time across 379 flights.
PSA on CLT to MEM did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 83.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 50.9%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 95 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, Monday is the strongest day at 77.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 56.9%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to MEM runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to MEM often beats the schedule: 96 of 363 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 121 late arrivals split 39 under half an hour, 40 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 42 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early96 flights26.4%
- Within 15 min146 flights40.2%
- 15–29 min late39 flights10.7%
- 30–59 min late40 flights11.0%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights6.9%
- 2+ hours late17 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 118 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 13 made it up before arrival. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to MEM
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 June 2026, 5 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 June 2026 | 5 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 August 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 July 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 June 2026 | 2 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 7,388 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,388 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 7,388 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 84.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.96%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
11.6% 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.
The 511 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 67.9% on time across 378 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. 379 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 MEM
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.96% 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. 363 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to MEM, every carrier
- PSA on MEM to CLT, the return leg
- American Airlines on CLT to MEM75.7%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Memphis International (MEM) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.