Carrier route record
OHCLT→VPS
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Valparaiso
- Flights
- 380
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 32%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on CLT to VPS sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 380 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on CLT to VPS runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.0%
Every carrier on CLT to VPS, 1,206 flights
These figures cover 380 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on CLT to VPS
PSA flew 380 of the 1,206 flights on CLT to VPS, about 32% of it. Its 72.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 74.4% to PSA at 72.9%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 826 | 74.4% | 65 min | 1.09% | C |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 380 | 72.9% | 77 min | 5.00% | C− |
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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 36 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am36 flights93.9%
- 11am–2pm88 flights84.5%
- 2pm–5pm106 flights71.0%
- 5pm–8pm109 flights64.1%
- 8pm–5am41 flights57.9%
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 57.9% on time, against 93.9% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 109 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to VPS through the year
August is the worst month at 52.9% on time, 34 points below September, the best at 86.7%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 45.5%, a spread of 45 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to VPS runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to VPS often beats the schedule: 126 of 358 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 97 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 45 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early126 flights35.2%
- Within 15 min135 flights37.7%
- 15–29 min late27 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late25 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late27 flights7.5%
- 2+ hours late18 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 99 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to VPS
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 July 2026, 10 hours 22 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 July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 July 2026 | 10 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 July 2026 | 4 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 July 2026 | 3 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 January 2026 | 3 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 December 2025 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 7,483 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,483 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 7,483 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,639 of the 7,483 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 5.00%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 460 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 72.8% on time across 380 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. 380 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 VPS
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.00% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 358 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.