Carrier route record
OHCMH→CLT
PSA Airlines · Columbus to Charlotte
- Flights
- 739
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 36%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on CMH to CLT 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 739 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on CMH to CLT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 727 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.62%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.2%
Every carrier on CMH to CLT, 2,042 flights
These figures cover 739 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% 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 CMH to CLT
PSA flew 739 of the 2,042 flights on CMH to CLT, about 36% of it. Its 79.5% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 91.4% to PSA at 79.5%. Two 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 | 35 | 91.4% | 120 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 1,263 | 86.7% | 96 min | 1.98% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 80.0% | 50 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 739 | 79.5% | 77 min | 1.62% | 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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am85 flights94.1%
- 11am–2pm136 flights84.7%
- 2pm–5pm279 flights77.6%
- 5pm–8pm235 flights73.0%
- 8pm–5am4 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 94.1% of the time, against 73.0% for the evening 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 279 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CMH to CLT through the year
December is the weak month at 59.7% on time, against 84.8% in November. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. May was the busiest month here, with 94 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 92.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.7%, a spread of 22 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CMH to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on CMH to CLT often beats the schedule: 331 of 727 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 149 late arrivals split 48 under half an hour, 39 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 62 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early331 flights45.5%
- Within 15 min247 flights34.0%
- 15–29 min late48 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late39 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late28 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 727 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
45 of 171 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 23 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CMH to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 November 2025, 16 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2025 | 16 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 July 2026 | 5 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 4 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 January 2026 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 December 2025 | 4 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 65% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
65% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 55 to one. The split is drawn from 11,498 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 94.1% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.62% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.5% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 347 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 78.7% on time across 739 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. 739 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 CMH to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 739 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 79.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 727 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CMH to CLT, every carrier
- PSA on CLT to CMH, the return leg
- American Airlines on CMH to CLT86.7%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) delay statistics
- 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.