Carrier route record

OHCLT→SHV

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Shreveport

Flights: 140
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 2

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

PSA on CLT to SHV lands a B+, 2 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 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 140 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

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

On time

79.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 140 completed flights

Avg delay

50 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

71.4%

Every carrier on CLT to SHV, 746 flights

These figures cover 140 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 SHV

PSA flew 140 of the 746 flights on CLT to SHV, about 19% of it. Its 79.3% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 71.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 79.3% to SkyWest at 69.5%.

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 SHV
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	140	79.3%	50 min	0.00%	B+
SkyWest Airlines	606	69.5%	164 min	3.47%	C−

Departure window

When PSA runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 140 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am68 flights82.4%
11am–2pm9 flights—
2pm–5pm63 flights81.0%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 82.4% on time. The full set of windows spans about a point.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to SHV through the year

Jul–Sep 202586 flights82.6%
Oct–Dec 202516 flights—
Jan–Mar 20263 flights—
Apr–Jun 202635 flights74.3%

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 79.3% on time across 140 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on CLT to SHV logged 86 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 16 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 3 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 35 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 79.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 1,440 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
47%
National Airspace System
26%
Carrier
17%
Extreme weather
9%

47% 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 1,440 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 1,440 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 82.4% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.4% 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 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 764 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.7% on time across 140 flights, 8 points below 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 8 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 140 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 SHV

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 140 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 79.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 140 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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