Carrier route record
OHCLT→XNA
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Bentonville
- Flights
- 694
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 48%
- 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 XNA lands a B−, 4 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 694 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's CLT to XNA record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 40 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 673 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.03%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.0%
Every carrier on CLT to XNA, 1,456 flights
These figures cover 694 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on CLT to XNA
PSA flew 694 of the 1,456 flights on CLT to XNA, about 48% of it. Its 81.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.1% to Envoy at 79.9%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 135 | 85.1% | 105 min | 0.74% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 694 | 81.3% | 63 min | 3.03% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 627 | 79.9% | 76 min | 1.75% | 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–8am—
- 8am–11am282 flights87.6%
- 11am–2pm130 flights85.8%
- 2pm–5pm187 flights67.2%
- 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 87.6% of the time, against 67.2% for the afternoon window. That is 20 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 282 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to XNA through the year
August is the worst month at 72.6% on time, 20 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. August was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.0% on time and Thursday the weakest at 77.6%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to XNA runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to XNA often beats the schedule: 279 of 673 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 126 late arrivals split 50 under half an hour, 38 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 38 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early279 flights41.5%
- Within 15 min268 flights39.8%
- 15–29 min late50 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late38 flights5.6%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late15 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 673 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
37 of 130 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. 33 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to XNA
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 July 2026, 15 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2026 | 15 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 July 2026 | 5 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 June 2026 | 4 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 44 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 7,913 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,913 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 7,913 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 87.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.03%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
5.6% 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 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.
The return leg runs 81.6% on time across 694 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. 694 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: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.03% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 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. 673 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to XNA, every carrier
- PSA on XNA to CLT, the return leg
- American Airlines on CLT to XNA85.1%
- Envoy Air on CLT to XNA79.9%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.