Carrier route record
OHCLT→PNS
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Pensacola
- Flights
- 1,199
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 65%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,199 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on CLT to PNS runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 54 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,165 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.42%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.0%
Every carrier on CLT to PNS, 1,846 flights
These figures cover 1,199 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.3% 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 PNS
PSA flew 1,199 of the 1,846 flights on CLT to PNS, most of the route. Its 71.9% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.6% to PSA at 71.9%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 70 | 88.6% | 66 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 577 | 79.6% | 87 min | 1.21% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 1,199 | 71.9% | 75 min | 2.42% | C |
Flight by flight
PSA flight numbers on CLT to PNS
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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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am30 flights80.0%
- 11am–2pm270 flights84.6%
- 2pm–5pm280 flights68.4%
- 5pm–8pm439 flights67.2%
- 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 84.6% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 67.2%. 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 439 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to PNS through the year
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 77.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 63.1%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to PNS runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to PNS often beats the schedule: 332 of 1,165 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 327 late arrivals split 97 under half an hour, 87 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 143 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early332 flights28.5%
- Within 15 min506 flights43.4%
- 15–29 min late97 flights8.3%
- 30–59 min late87 flights7.5%
- 1–2 hours late91 flights7.8%
- 2+ hours late52 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,165 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
40 of 306 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 61 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at PNS.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to PNS
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 February 2026, 11 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across February, April and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 February 2026 | 11 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 April 2026 | 11 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 6 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 5 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 February 2026 | 5 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 24,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 24,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 24,403 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.42% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.42%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.3% 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 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 82.3% on time across 1,200 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,199 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. 1,165 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to PNS, every carrier
- PSA on PNS to CLT, the return leg
- American Airlines on CLT to PNS79.6%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.