Carrier route record
OHPIT→CLT
PSA Airlines · Pittsburgh to Charlotte
- Flights
- 220
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on PIT 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 220 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on PIT to CLT runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 119 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 205 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.36%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.5%
Every carrier on PIT to CLT, 1,981 flights
These figures cover 220 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.7% 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 PIT to CLT
PSA flew 220 of the 1,981 flights on PIT to CLT, about 11% of it. Its 65.4% on time is 17 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 84.6% to PSA at 65.4%.
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 | 1,761 | 84.6% | 94 min | 1.25% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 220 | 65.4% | 80 min | 6.36% | 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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am18 flights—
- 11am–2pm44 flights73.2%
- 2pm–5pm60 flights73.6%
- 5pm–8pm24 flights—
- 8pm–5am74 flights62.3%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 62.3% on time, against 73.6% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 74 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on PIT to CLT through the year
- Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights77.9%
- Apr–Jun 202647 flights62.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights50.9%
Scale runs 40% 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 65.4% on time across 220 flights.
PSA on PIT to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 50.9%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 73 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 75.0% on time and Monday the weakest at 56.7%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on PIT to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on PIT to CLT often beats the schedule: 62 of 205 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 71 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 26 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights30.2%
- Within 15 min72 flights35.1%
- 15–29 min late23 flights11.2%
- 30–59 min late22 flights10.7%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights6.8%
- 2+ hours late12 flights5.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 205 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 89 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 5 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on PIT to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 January 2026, 19 hours 22 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 January 2026 | 19 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 July 2026 | 4 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 December 2025 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 March 2026 | 3 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 3 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 66% of the 5,646 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 66%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
66% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,646 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 5,646 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 6.36%, against 1.89% 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
12.7% 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.
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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 61.8% on time across 220 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 220 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 6.36% 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. 205 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PIT to CLT, every carrier
- PSA on CLT to PIT, the return leg
- American Airlines on PIT to CLT84.6%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 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.