Carrier route record
OHDAB→CLT
PSA Airlines · Daytona Beach to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,135
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 81%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on DAB to CLT carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.4% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, more than four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,135 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's DAB to CLT record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 65 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,096 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.44%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.7%
Every carrier on DAB to CLT, 1,398 flights
These figures cover 1,135 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 DAB to CLT
PSA flew 1,135 of the 1,398 flights on DAB to CLT, most of the route. Its 83.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 83.8% to American at 83.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 1,135 | 83.8% | 88 min | 3.44% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 263 | 83.5% | 131 min | 0.76% | 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 34 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am220 flights93.9%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm531 flights85.4%
- 2pm–5pm206 flights81.4%
- 5pm–8pm100 flights75.5%
- 8pm–5am78 flights60.3%
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.3% on time, against 93.9% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 531 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DAB to CLT through the year
July is the worst month at 73.5% on time, 20 points below November, the best at 93.1%. 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. September was the busiest month here, with 127 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 78.3%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DAB to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on DAB to CLT often beats the schedule: 542 of 1,096 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 178 late arrivals split 48 under half an hour, 54 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 76 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early542 flights49.5%
- Within 15 min376 flights34.3%
- 15–29 min late48 flights4.4%
- 30–59 min late54 flights4.9%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights3.1%
- 2+ hours late42 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,096 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
61 of 222 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. Only 17 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DAB to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 January 2026, 20 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across January, June, July and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 January 2026 | 20 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 16 hours 11 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 July 2026 | 8 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 July 2026 | 4 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 August 2026 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 15%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 15% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 15,742 reported delay minutes.
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.44%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
6.9% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 416 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.4% on time across 1,135 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,135 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking PSA on DAB to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.44% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,096 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.