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Carrier route record

OHCLTSAV

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Savannah

Flights
1,450
Period
July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route
70%
Carriers
3
BGRADE

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

PSA on CLT to SAV lands a B, about a point 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 a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,450 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

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

Key figures

On time

78.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,419 completed flights

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.07%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

76.5%

Every carrier on CLT to SAV, 2,074 flights

These figures cover 1,450 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% 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 SAV

PSA flew 1,450 of the 2,074 flights on CLT to SAV, most of the route. Its 78.4% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 100.0% to American at 70.7%. 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 SAV
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Envoy Airthin sample28100.0%0.00%A+
PSA Airlines (this page)1,45078.4%69 min2.07%B
American Airlines59670.7%78 min0.34%C+

Flight by flight

PSA flight numbers on CLT to SAV

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 24 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–8am35 flights94.3%
  • 8am–11am223 flights88.6%
  • 11am–2pm348 flights83.9%
  • 2pm–5pm178 flights78.1%
  • 5pm–8pm243 flights72.5%
  • 8pm–5am423 flights70.6%

Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.3% of the time, against 70.6% for the overnight window. That is 24 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 423 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to SAV through the year

On-time rate by calendar month80J73F75M78A74M65J69J82A89S87O91N73D
Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.November best, June worst

June is the worst month at 65.2% on time, 26 points below November, the best at 90.8%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. October was the busiest month here, with 167 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.5%. 11 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

On-time rate by day of the week75.5Mon81.3Tue85.3Wed76.5Thu78.9Fri76.1Sat74.5Sun
Monday: 75.5 percent on time. Tuesday: 81.3 percent on time. Wednesday: 85.3 percent on time. Thursday: 76.5 percent on time. Friday: 78.9 percent on time. Saturday: 76.1 percent on time. Sunday: 74.5 percent on time

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 21,000 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
    52%
  • Carrier
    31%
  • National Airspace System
    10%
  • Extreme weather
    7%

52% 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 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 21,251 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 94.3% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 2.07% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.07%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

8.5% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 213 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 87.3% on time across 1,446 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 1,450 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 SAV

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. November runs 90.8% on time and June 65.2%, a swing of 26 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,419 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.