Carrier route record
OHCLT→SRQ
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Sarasota
- Flights
- 272
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 20%
- 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 SRQ lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 272 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on CLT to SRQ from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 271 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.37%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.4%
Every carrier on CLT to SRQ, 1,346 flights
These figures cover 272 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on CLT to SRQ
PSA flew 272 of the 1,346 flights on CLT to SRQ, about 20% of it. Its 79.3% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.4% to American at 76.1%. 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 | 138 | 82.4% | 65 min | 1.45% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 272 | 79.3% | 65 min | 0.37% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 936 | 76.1% | 73 min | 1.92% | B |
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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 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am20 flights—
- 8am–11am118 flights83.9%
- 11am–2pm47 flights89.4%
- 2pm–5pm83 flights69.9%
- 5pm–8pm4 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 89.4% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 69.9%. 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 118 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to SRQ through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 2025106 flights80.0%
- Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202693 flights82.8%
- Jul–Sep 202638 flights57.9%
Scale runs 50% to 95%. 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 272 flights.
PSA on CLT to SRQ did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 57.9%, a swing of 32 points on roughly 68 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 97.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.7%, a spread of 30 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to SRQ runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to SRQ often beats the schedule: 92 of 271 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 56 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early92 flights33.9%
- Within 15 min123 flights45.4%
- 15–29 min late20 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights4.8%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 271 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 53 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. In the other direction, 17 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 SRQ.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to SRQ
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 September 2025, 4 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2025 | 4 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 December 2025 | 4 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 July 2026 | 3 hours 55 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 7 December 2025 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,658 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,658 reported delay minutes.
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,658 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations are rare at 0.37%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.
The 547 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.
The return leg runs 78.5% on time across 272 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. 272 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 SRQ
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 272 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. 271 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to SRQ, every carrier
- PSA on SRQ to CLT, the return leg
- Envoy Air on CLT to SRQ82.4%
- American Airlines on CLT to SRQ76.1%
- 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.