Carrier route record

OHCLT→PNS

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Pensacola

Flights: 1,191
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 62%
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 PNS sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,191 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA 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

73.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,161 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.18%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.0%

Every carrier on CLT to PNS, 1,933 flights

These figures cover 1,191 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% 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 PNS

PSA flew 1,191 of the 1,933 flights on CLT to PNS, most of the route. Its 73.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 83.3% to PSA at 73.7%. 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 PNS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines	632	83.3%	76 min	1.27%	B
Envoy Airthin sample	110	76.9%	47 min	0.91%	B+
PSA Airlines (this page)	1,191	73.7%	75 min	2.18%	C

Flight by flight

PSA flight numbers on CLT to PNS

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 17 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–11am29 flights—
11am–2pm294 flights85.2%
2pm–5pm246 flights71.2%
5pm–8pm442 flights69.5%
8pm–5am180 flights68.2%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 85.2% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 68.2%. 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 442 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to PNS through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.October best, May worst

October is the best month on the calendar at 90.2% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. December was the busiest month here, with 156 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.6% on time and Thursday the weakest at 66.5%. 12 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 23,000 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
49%
Carrier
29%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
8%
Security
0%

49% 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 23,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 22,958 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 2.18% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.

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. 11.7% 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 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.4% on time across 1,192 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.

The sample behind these figures is 1,191 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.

What to do with this

Booking PSA on CLT to PNS

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. October runs 90.2% on time and May 56.5%, a swing of 34 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of May before you think about anything else. 1,161 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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