Carrier route record

OHPIT→CLT

PSA Airlines · Pittsburgh to Charlotte

Flights: 159
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 8%
Carriers: 2

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

PSA on PIT to CLT sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 159 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on PIT to CLT runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 65 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 149 completed flights

Avg delay

84 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.29%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.9%

Every carrier on PIT to CLT, 1,933 flights

These figures cover 159 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on PIT to CLT

PSA flew 159 of the 1,933 flights on PIT to CLT, about 8% of it. Its 71.1% on time is 13 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.0% to PSA at 71.1%.

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 PIT to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines	1,774	85.0%	82 min	1.24%	A
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	159	71.1%	84 min	6.29%	C−

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 11 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–8am—
8am–11am18 flights—
11am–2pm44 flights73.2%
2pm–5pm55 flights73.5%
5pm–8pm1 flights—
8pm–5am41 flights62.5%

Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 62.5% on time, against 73.5% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 55 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on PIT to CLT through the year

Jul–Sep 20251 flights—
Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
Jan–Mar 202684 flights77.9%
Apr–Jun 202647 flights62.2%

Scale runs 55% 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 71.1% on time across 159 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on PIT to CLT logged 1 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 27 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 84 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 47 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 71.1% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 3,609 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
52%
Carrier
37%
Extreme weather
6%
National Airspace System
5%

52% 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 3,609 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 3,609 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,332 of the 3,609 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 6.29%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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

8.7% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 366 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 69.3% on time across 159 flights, within 2 points 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. 159 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 PIT to CLT

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.29% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 149 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.

Key figures