Carrier route record
OHLIT→CLT
PSA Airlines · Little Rock to Charlotte
- Flights
- 427
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 34%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on LIT to CLT lands a B−, 4 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 427 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on LIT 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
80.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 408 completed flights
Avg delay
102 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.45%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.2%
Every carrier on LIT to CLT, 1,262 flights
These figures cover 427 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% 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 LIT to CLT
PSA flew 427 of the 1,262 flights on LIT to CLT, about 34% of it. Its 80.9% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.4% to SkyWest at 75.9%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 653 | 88.4% | 55 min | 1.23% | A |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 427 | 80.9% | 102 min | 4.45% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 41 | 80.5% | 32 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 141 | 75.9% | 187 min | 2.84% | 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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am6 flights—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm157 flights87.1%
- 2pm–5pm132 flights78.7%
- 5pm–8pm132 flights75.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% 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 87.1% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 75.0%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 157 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on LIT to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 2025123 flights82.4%
- Jan–Mar 2026134 flights83.3%
- Apr–Jun 2026106 flights84.0%
- Jul–Sep 202635 flights61.8%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. 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 80.9% on time across 427 flights.
PSA on LIT to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 84.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 61.8%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 107 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 89.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.2%, a spread of 23 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on LIT to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on LIT to CLT often beats the schedule: 140 of 408 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 78 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 35 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early140 flights34.3%
- Within 15 min190 flights46.6%
- 15–29 min late21 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late22 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 408 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 85 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on LIT to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 August 2026, 19 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2026 | 19 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 September 2025 | 17 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 December 2025 | 15 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 20 June 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 March 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 7,960 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
- 5%National Airspace System
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,960 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 7,960 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.45%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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
8.6% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 640 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 81.8% on time across 427 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 427 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 LIT to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.45% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 408 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIT to CLT, every carrier
- PSA on CLT to LIT, the return leg
- Envoy Air on LIT to CLT88.4%
- SkyWest Airlines on LIT to CLT75.9%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.