Carrier route record
OHCVG→CLT
PSA Airlines · Cincinnati to Charlotte
- Flights
- 756
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on CVG to CLT lands a B, 3 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 close to two hours on average. That rests on 756 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.
Key figures
On time
79.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 741 completed flights
Avg delay
119 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.72%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.4%
Every carrier on CVG to CLT, 1,771 flights
These figures cover 756 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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 CVG to CLT
PSA flew 756 of the 1,771 flights on CVG to CLT, about 43% of it. Its 79.8% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.7% 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 54 | 83.7% | 58 min | 9.26% | B− |
| American Airlines | 961 | 82.5% | 97 min | 1.87% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 756 | 79.8% | 119 min | 1.72% | 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–11am365 flights82.9%
- 11am–2pm157 flights88.5%
- 2pm–5pm218 flights68.5%
- 5pm–8pm16 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 88.5% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 68.5%. 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 365 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CVG to CLT through the year
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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 86.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 75.7%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CVG to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on CVG to CLT often beats the schedule: 335 of 741 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When PSA on CVG to CLT is late it tends to be very late: 81 of its 150 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 39 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early335 flights45.2%
- Within 15 min256 flights34.5%
- 15–29 min late40 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late29 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late42 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late39 flights5.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 741 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
41 of 177 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. Only 14 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CVG to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 December 2025, 25 hours 33 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in April 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 December 2025 | 25 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 March 2026 | 20 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 April 2026 | 17 hours 19 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 April 2026 | 9 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 April 2026 | 9 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 17,834 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 8,871 of the 18,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.72% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.26%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 74.8% on time across 757 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 756 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. 756 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. 741 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CVG to CLT, every carrier
- PSA on CLT to CVG, the return leg
- American Airlines on CVG to CLT82.5%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.