Carrier route record

OHCLT→MSN

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Madison

Flights: 472
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 47%
Carriers: 2

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

PSA on CLT to MSN lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 472 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 MSN from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

81.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 465 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.85%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.8%

Every carrier on CLT to MSN, 1,011 flights

These figures cover 472 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 MSN

PSA flew 472 of the 1,011 flights on CLT to MSN, about 47% of it. Its 81.5% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 81.5% to American at 74.6%.

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 MSN
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlines (this page)	472	81.5%	66 min	0.85%	B+
American Airlines	539	74.6%	68 min	1.30%	C

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 15 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–8am—
8am–11am43 flights88.4%
11am–2pm163 flights90.1%
2pm–5pm266 flights75.0%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 90.1% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 75.0%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 266 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to MSN through the year

Jul–Sep 2025158 flights82.9%
Oct–Dec 2025107 flights89.6%
Jan–Mar 202688 flights75.0%
Apr–Jun 2026119 flights76.9%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. 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 81.5% on time across 472 flights.

PSA on CLT to MSN did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 89.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.0%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 118 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, Saturday is the strongest day at 90.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.5%. 17 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. Carrier accounts for 43% of the 5,693 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.

Carrier
43%
Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
5%

38% 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 5,693 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 5,693 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,422 of the 5,693 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.85%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.0% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 708 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg runs 80.1% on time across 472 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. 472 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 MSN

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 472 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 81.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 465 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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