Carrier route record

OHCVG→CLT

PSA Airlines · Cincinnati to Charlotte

Flights: 814
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 45%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on CVG 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 about 2.2 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 814 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 CVG to CLT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

79.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 799 completed flights

Avg delay

129 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.60%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.0%

Every carrier on CVG to CLT, 1,797 flights

These figures cover 814 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% 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 CVG to CLT

PSA flew 814 of the 1,797 flights on CVG to CLT, about 45% of it. Its 79.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.5% to PSA at 79.8%. 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 CVG to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	59	81.5%	55 min	8.47%	B−
American Airlines	924	80.0%	89 min	1.95%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)	814	79.8%	129 min	1.60%	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 14 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–8am17 flights—
8am–11am412 flights81.4%
11am–2pm173 flights84.9%
2pm–5pm193 flights70.7%
5pm–8pm19 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 84.9% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 70.7%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 412 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CVG to CLT through the year

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

December is the weak month at 63.7% on time, against 91.9% in October. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 118 flights.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 85.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 73.0%. 12 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. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 21,000 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.

Carrier
53%
Late-arriving aircraft
35%
National Airspace System
6%
Extreme weather
5%

35% 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 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 20,804 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 11,000 of the 21,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.60% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.25%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 335 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 72.7% on time across 815 flights, 7 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 7 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 814 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 CVG to CLT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 814 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 79.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 799 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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