Carrier route record
OHMEM→CLT
PSA Airlines · Memphis to Charlotte
- Flights
- 378
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on MEM to CLT draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 378 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on MEM to CLT runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 94 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.23%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.0%
Every carrier on MEM to CLT, 1,736 flights
These figures cover 378 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.3% 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 MEM to CLT
PSA flew 378 of the 1,736 flights on MEM to CLT, about 22% of it. Its 67.9% on time is 14 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.8% to PSA at 67.9%.
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 | 1,358 | 85.8% | 83 min | 1.55% | A |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 378 | 67.9% | 80 min | 4.23% | C− |
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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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am9 flights—
- 11am–2pm85 flights75.0%
- 2pm–5pm123 flights75.9%
- 5pm–8pm161 flights56.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 56.8% on time, against 75.9% for the 2pm–5pm 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 161 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on MEM to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 20252 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202542 flights81.0%
- Jan–Mar 2026131 flights73.3%
- Apr–Jun 202692 flights69.7%
- Jul–Sep 2026111 flights54.6%
Scale runs 45% to 85%. 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 67.9% on time across 378 flights.
PSA on MEM to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 54.6%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 95 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 83.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 57.7%, a spread of 26 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on MEM to CLT runs when it is late
The 116 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 41 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 48 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early85 flights23.5%
- Within 15 min160 flights44.3%
- 15–29 min late27 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late41 flights11.4%
- 1–2 hours late30 flights8.3%
- 2+ hours late18 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
36 of 150 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on MEM to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 June 2026, 17 hours 11 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in June 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 June 2026 | 17 hours 11 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 June 2026 | 13 hours 53 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 8 August 2026 | 4 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 June 2026 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 August 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 9,248 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Extreme weather
- 14%Carrier
- 3%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,248 reported delay minutes.
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,248 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 4.23%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
13.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 511 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 66.7% on time across 379 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. 378 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 MEM to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.23% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 361 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MEM to CLT, every carrier
- PSA on CLT to MEM, the return leg
- American Airlines on MEM to CLT85.8%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Memphis International (MEM) delay statistics
- 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.