Carrier route record

MQCLT→PNS

Envoy Air · Charlotte to Pensacola

Flights: 110
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on CLT to PNS lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 110 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 632 at 83.3% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on CLT to PNS from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

76.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 108 completed flights

Avg delay

47 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.91%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.0%

Every carrier on CLT to PNS, 1,933 flights

These figures cover 110 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

Envoy against every carrier on CLT to PNS

Envoy flew 110 of the 1,933 flights on CLT to PNS, about 6% of it. Its 76.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 83.3% to PSA at 73.7%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 83.3% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,191 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on CLT to PNS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines	632	83.3%	76 min	1.27%	B
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	110	76.9%	47 min	0.91%	B+
PSA Airlines	1,191	73.7%	75 min	2.18%	C

American leads PSA by 10 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 25 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm44 flights88.6%
2pm–5pm15 flights—
5pm–8pm51 flights63.3%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.3% on time, against 88.6% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 51 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on CLT to PNS through the year

Jul–Sep 202541 flights56.4%
Oct–Dec 202515 flights—
Jan–Mar 202648 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 50% 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 76.9% on time across 110 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on CLT to PNS logged 41 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 15 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 48 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 6 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 76.9% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 1,177 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
46%
Carrier
21%
Extreme weather
17%
National Airspace System
16%

Extreme weather accounts for 17% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,177 reported delay minutes.

46% 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 1,177 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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.

Cancellations sit at 0.91% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.91%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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.

At 488 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 77.8% on time across 110 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. 110 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 Envoy on CLT to PNS

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 110 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 76.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 108 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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