Carrier route record

OHCMH→CLT

PSA Airlines · Columbus to Charlotte

Flights: 799
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 39%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 799 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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.

On time

79.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 783 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

84.6%

Every carrier on CMH to CLT, 2,028 flights

These figures cover 799 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on CMH to CLT

PSA flew 799 of the 2,028 flights on CMH to CLT, about 39% of it. Its 79.4% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 94.2% to PSA at 79.4%. 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 CMH to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	69	94.2%	95 min	0.00%	A+
American Airlines	1,160	87.6%	82 min	2.16%	A
PSA Airlines (this page)	799	79.4%	82 min	2.00%	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 25 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–11am58 flights96.6%
11am–2pm187 flights86.8%
2pm–5pm291 flights77.8%
5pm–8pm259 flights71.7%
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 96.6% of the time, against 71.7% for the evening window. That is 25 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 291 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CMH to CLT through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.November best, December worst

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 89.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.2%. 15 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
56%
Carrier
31%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
0%

56% 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 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 23 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 13,264 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 96.6% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 2.00% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

8.7% 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 an hour and a half, 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 80.1% on time across 799 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. 799 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. 799 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 79.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 783 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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