Carrier route record

OHILM→CLT

PSA Airlines · Wilmington to Charlotte

Flights: 324
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 18%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on ILM 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 324 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's ILM to CLT record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 86 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 319 completed flights

Avg delay

77 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.54%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

87.9%

Every carrier on ILM to CLT, 1,838 flights

These figures cover 324 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 ILM to CLT

PSA flew 324 of the 1,838 flights on ILM to CLT, about 18% of it. Its 86.2% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 87.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 88.3% to Envoy at 0.0%. 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 ILM to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines	1,513	88.3%	101 min	2.12%	A
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	324	86.2%	77 min	1.54%	A
Envoy Airthin sample	1	0.0%	70 min	0.00%	F+

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 21 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–8am50 flights96.0%
8am–11am4 flights—
11am–2pm104 flights94.2%
2pm–5pm36 flights88.9%
5pm–8pm39 flights76.3%
8pm–5am91 flights75.0%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 96.0% of the time, against 75.0% for the overnight window. That is 21 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 104 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on ILM to CLT through the year

Jul–Sep 202580 flights91.2%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights84.4%
Jan–Mar 2026106 flights85.1%
Apr–Jun 202648 flights83.3%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 86.2% on time across 324 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on ILM to CLT held fairly steady: 91.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 91.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 82.0%. 10 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 74% of the 3,379 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
74%
Carrier
20%
National Airspace System
5%
Extreme weather
1%

74% 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 3,379 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 74 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 3,379 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 96.0% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.54% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.0% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 185 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 80.1% on time across 326 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 324 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 ILM to CLT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 324 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 86.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 319 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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