Carrier route record

OHCLT→RIC

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Richmond

Flights: 431
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 17%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on CLT to RIC lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 431 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

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

On time

81.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 425 completed flights

Avg delay

63 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.16%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

76.1%

Every carrier on CLT to RIC, 2,497 flights

These figures cover 431 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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

PSA against every carrier on CLT to RIC

PSA flew 431 of the 2,497 flights on CLT to RIC, about 17% of it. Its 81.4% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.7% to American at 74.7%. Two 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 RIC
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	40	85.7%	31 min	12.50%	A−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	31	82.8%	110 min	6.45%	B−
PSA Airlines (this page)	431	81.4%	63 min	1.16%	B
American Airlines	1,995	74.7%	64 min	2.01%	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 19 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–11am116 flights90.5%
11am–2pm190 flights83.3%
2pm–5pm100 flights71.4%
5pm–8pm25 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.5% of the time, against 71.4% for the afternoon window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 190 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to RIC through the year

Jul–Sep 2025178 flights85.9%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights84.4%
Jan–Mar 202675 flights73.2%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights75.9%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 81.4% on time across 431 flights.

PSA on CLT to RIC did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 85.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.2%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 108 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, Monday is the strongest day at 87.1% on time and Friday the weakest at 74.6%. 13 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 50% of the 4,938 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
50%
Carrier
25%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
8%
Security
3%

50% 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 4,938 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 4,938 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.5% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.16% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.23%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 257 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 80.0% on time across 431 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. 431 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 RIC

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 431 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 81.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 425 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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