Carrier route record
OHILM→CLT
PSA Airlines · Wilmington to Charlotte
- Flights
- 341
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 341 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's ILM to CLT record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights
Avg delay
100 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.35%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
87.2%
Every carrier on ILM to CLT, 1,826 flights
These figures cover 341 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 ILM to CLT
PSA flew 341 of the 1,826 flights on ILM to CLT, about 19% of it. Its 85.6% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 87.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 87.7% 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 1,484 | 87.7% | 113 min | 2.16% | A |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 341 | 85.6% | 100 min | 2.35% | A |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 1 | 0.0% | 70 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am50 flights96.0%
- 8am–11am4 flights—
- 11am–2pm108 flights94.4%
- 2pm–5pm46 flights83.7%
- 5pm–8pm42 flights75.6%
- 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 108 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on ILM to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202562 flights91.9%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights84.4%
- Jan–Mar 2026106 flights85.1%
- Apr–Jun 202648 flights83.3%
- Jul–Sep 202635 flights81.2%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 85.6% on time across 341 flights.
PSA on ILM to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 91.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 81.2%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 68 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 92.5% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 80.0%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on ILM to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on ILM to CLT often beats the schedule: 171 of 333 completed flights, 51%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 48 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early171 flights51.4%
- Within 15 min114 flights34.2%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.3%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 333 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 63 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 19 still arrived on time. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on ILM to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 August 2026, 18 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across August, December, February and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2026 | 18 hours 50 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 December 2025 | 6 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 February 2026 | 4 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 September 2025 | 3 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 August 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 4,793 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Extreme weather
- 14%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 26% 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 4.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,793 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 4,793 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.
Cancellations sit at 2.35% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.3% 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 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 79.7% on time across 343 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. 341 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. 341 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 85.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 333 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ILM to CLT, every carrier
- PSA on CLT to ILM, the return leg
- American Airlines on ILM to CLT87.7%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.