Carrier route record

OHCLT→XNA

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Bentonville

Flights: 649
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 44%
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 XNA lands a B, 5 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 649 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's CLT to XNA record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 52 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 633 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.47%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.7%

Every carrier on CLT to XNA, 1,482 flights

These figures cover 649 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 XNA

PSA flew 649 of the 1,482 flights on CLT to XNA, about 44% of it. Its 82.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 82.8% to Envoy at 80.8%. 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 XNA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlines (this page)	649	82.8%	57 min	2.47%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	206	80.9%	127 min	0.49%	B+
Envoy Air	627	80.8%	74 min	1.75%	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 21 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–8am—
8am–11am258 flights89.6%
11am–2pm112 flights89.2%
2pm–5pm184 flights68.9%
5pm–8pm19 flights—
8pm–5am76 flights82.7%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 89.6% of the time, against 68.9% for the afternoon window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 258 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CLT to XNA through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.October best, August worst

August is the worst month at 73.9% on time, 18 points below October, the best at 92.2%. 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 82 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 79.5%. 8 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 6,175 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
38%
Carrier
28%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
10%

38% 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 6,175 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 6,175 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 89.6% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.5% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 754 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 83.2% on time across 649 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. 649 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 XNA

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 649 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 82.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 633 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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