Carrier route record

OHCLT→OKC

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Oklahoma City

Flights: 138
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 17%
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 OKC earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 138 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's CLT to OKC record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 143 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 136 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.72%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.2%

Every carrier on CLT to OKC, 794 flights

These figures cover 138 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 OKC

PSA flew 138 of the 794 flights on CLT to OKC, about 17% of it. Its 91.9% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 91.9% to SkyWest at 66.7%. 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 OKC
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	138	91.9%	61 min	0.72%	A+
American Airlines	592	78.9%	68 min	1.86%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	64	66.7%	87 min	1.56%	C

Departure window

When PSA runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 138 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am10 flights—
11am–2pm36 flights97.2%
2pm–5pm92 flights90.1%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 97.2% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 90.1%. 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 92 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to OKC through the year

Jul–Sep 202549 flights91.8%
Oct–Dec 202526 flights—
Jan–Mar 202619 flights—
Apr–Jun 202644 flights93.0%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. 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 91.9% on time across 138 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on CLT to OKC logged 49 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 26 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 19 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 44 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 91.9% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 669 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
50%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
21%

The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, 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 336 of the 669 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 669 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.72%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 940 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.9% on time across 138 flights, 6 points below 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. 138 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 OKC

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 138 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 91.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 136 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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