Carrier route record

OHCLT→PIT

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Pittsburgh

Flights: 159
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 8%
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 PIT sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 159 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on CLT to PIT runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 83 extra late arrivals.

On time

69.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 150 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.66%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.1%

Every carrier on CLT to PIT, 1,932 flights

These figures cover 159 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.7% 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 PIT

PSA flew 159 of the 1,932 flights on CLT to PIT, about 8% of it. Its 69.3% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 77.8% to PSA at 69.3%.

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 PIT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines	1,773	77.8%	63 min	1.24%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	159	69.3%	58 min	5.66%	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 18 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–11am18 flights—
11am–2pm99 flights72.5%
2pm–5pm1 flights—
5pm–8pm41 flights55.0%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 55.0% on time, against 72.5% for the 11am–2pm 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 99 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to PIT through the year

Jul–Sep 20251 flights—
Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
Jan–Mar 202684 flights78.2%
Apr–Jun 202647 flights53.3%

Scale runs 45% to 85%. 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 69.3% on time across 159 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on CLT to PIT logged 1 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 27 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 84 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 47 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 69.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 2,664 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
60%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
1%

60% 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 2,664 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 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 2,664 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 5.66%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 366 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 71.1% on time across 159 flights, within 2 points 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. 159 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 PIT

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.66% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 150 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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