Carrier route record

OHCLT→SRQ

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Sarasota

Flights: 267
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on CLT to SRQ lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six 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 267 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's CLT to SRQ record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 266 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.37%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.8%

Every carrier on CLT to SRQ, 1,427 flights

These figures cover 267 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 SRQ

PSA flew 267 of the 1,427 flights on CLT to SRQ, about 19% of it. Its 83.5% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 83.5% to American at 75.6%. 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 SRQ
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	267	83.5%	62 min	0.37%	B+
Envoy Airthin sample	138	82.4%	65 min	1.45%	B
American Airlines	1,022	75.6%	69 min	2.15%	B

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 10 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–8am20 flights—
8am–11am148 flights85.1%
11am–2pm47 flights89.4%
2pm–5pm48 flights79.2%
5pm–8pm4 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% 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 79.2%. 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 148 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to SRQ through the year

Jul–Sep 202563 flights88.9%
Oct–Dec 2025106 flights80.0%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
Apr–Jun 202693 flights82.8%

Scale runs 70% 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 83.5% on time across 267 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on CLT to SRQ held fairly steady: 88.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.0% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 82.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 96.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.0%. 24 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

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 2,736 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
37%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
6%

37% 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 2,736 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 2,736 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,083 of the 2,736 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.37%, below the national 1.81% 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

5.3% 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.

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. 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 runs 83.4% on time across 267 flights, within half 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. 267 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. 267 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 83.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 266 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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