Carrier route record
OHCLT→PIT
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Pittsburgh
- Flights
- 220
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- 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 PIT draws a D−. Roughly 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 220 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on CLT to PIT runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 155 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 207 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.45%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.8%
Every carrier on CLT to PIT, 1,980 flights
These figures cover 220 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.5% 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 PIT
PSA flew 220 of the 1,980 flights on CLT to PIT, about 11% of it. Its 61.8% on time is 14 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 77.5% to PSA at 61.8%.
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 | 1,760 | 77.5% | 67 min | 1.25% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 220 | 61.8% | 65 min | 5.45% | D− |
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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 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am18 flights—
- 11am–2pm104 flights71.9%
- 2pm–5pm24 flights—
- 5pm–8pm74 flights52.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 52.2% on time, against 71.9% 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 104 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to PIT through the year
- Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights78.2%
- Apr–Jun 202647 flights53.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights43.1%
Scale runs 35% 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 61.8% on time across 220 flights.
PSA on CLT to PIT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 43.1%, a swing of 35 points on roughly 73 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 65.6% on time and Friday the weakest at 57.6%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to PIT runs when it is late
The 79 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 32 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early34 flights16.4%
- Within 15 min94 flights45.4%
- 15–29 min late24 flights11.6%
- 30–59 min late23 flights11.1%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights11.1%
- 2+ hours late9 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 207 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 88 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to PIT
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 July 2026, 4 hours 11 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.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 July 2026 | 4 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 July 2026 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 29 August 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 March 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 5,111 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,111 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 5,111 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.45%, against 1.89% 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
15.5% 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.
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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 65.4% on time across 220 flights, 4 points above 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 220 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 5.45% 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. 207 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to PIT, every carrier
- PSA on PIT to CLT, the return leg
- American Airlines on CLT to PIT77.5%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 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.