Carrier route record

OHECP→CLT

PSA Airlines · Panama City to Charlotte

Flights: 983
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 86%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on ECP to CLT earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 983 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's ECP to CLT record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 964 completed flights

Avg delay

92 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.83%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.8%

Every carrier on ECP to CLT, 1,146 flights

These figures cover 983 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on ECP to CLT

PSA flew 983 of the 1,146 flights on ECP to CLT, most of the route. Its 85.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 85.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 96.0% to Envoy at 85.0%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on ECP to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	50	96.0%	101 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines (this page)	983	85.4%	92 min	1.83%	A
Envoy Airthin sample	113	85.0%	44 min	0.00%	A+

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 12 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–8am174 flights87.6%
8am–11am186 flights89.7%
11am–2pm225 flights85.5%
2pm–5pm221 flights85.9%
5pm–8pm177 flights77.6%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 89.7% of the time, against 77.6% for the evening window. That is 12 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 225 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on ECP to CLT through the year

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

June is the worst month at 77.5% on time, 18 points below October, the best at 95.3%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 114 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 91.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.1%. 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% 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
60%
Carrier
28%
National Airspace System
6%
Extreme weather
6%
Security
0%

60% 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 10 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 13,013 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 89.7% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.83% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.10%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.8% 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 437 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.4% on time across 984 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. 983 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 ECP to CLT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 983 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 85.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 964 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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