Route reliability record
PIA→CLT
Peoria to Charlotte
- Flights
- 720
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 607 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route lands a B−, 2 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 720 PIA to CLT flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Best time to fly PIA to CLT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 87.9% of the time and Tuesday flights 82.2%, against 78.8% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 689 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.03%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
78.8% on time across 720 flights
These figures cover 720 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on PIA to CLT
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 720 | 78.8% | 103 min | 4.03% | B− |
Flight by flight
Flights on PIA to CLT
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am340 flights87.9%
- 8am–11am24 flights—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm156 flights70.6%
- 5pm–8pm200 flights67.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.9% of the time, against 67.7% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 340 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter PIA to CLT by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On PIA to CLT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 87.9% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 67.7%, a wide gap of 20.2 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am87.9%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2–5pm70.6%
- 5–8pm67.7%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 32 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
December is the weak month at 61.8% on time, against 93.4% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. May was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 71.6%, a spread of 11 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 15,045 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,295 of the 15,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 4.03%, 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 actually costs
10.3% 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 607 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 73.0% on time across 718 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. 720 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in CLT after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.03% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 689 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
PIA to CLT questions
How often is PIA to CLT delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 21.2% of the 720 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is PIA to CLT compared with the rest of the country?
78.8% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 2 points in its favour. That is worth a B− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on PIA to CLT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 87.9% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 67.7%, 20 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are December delays on PIA to CLT?
December is the weakest month at 61.8% on time, compared with 93.4% in May. Across the year that is 32 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to PIA — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- PIA to ORD, a related route70.5%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- PIA to DFW, a related route79.1%
- PSA Airlines on-time record78.8%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. PIA to CLT and CLT to PIA are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.