Carrier route record

MQPNS→CLT

Envoy Air · Pensacola to Charlotte

Flights: 110
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on PNS to CLT lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 35 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 110 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 632 at 87.2% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on PNS to CLT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

77.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 108 completed flights

Avg delay

36 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.82%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.7%

Every carrier on PNS to CLT, 1,934 flights

These figures cover 110 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on PNS to CLT

Envoy flew 110 of the 1,934 flights on PNS to CLT, about 6% of it. Its 77.8% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 87.2% to Envoy at 77.8%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on PNS to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines	632	87.2%	141 min	1.42%	A
PSA Airlines	1,192	82.4%	153 min	2.43%	B
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	110	77.8%	36 min	1.82%	B

No carrier stands out. American tops the table at 87.2%, 5 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 23 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm59 flights88.1%
5pm–8pm51 flights65.3%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 88.1% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 65.3%. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 59 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on PNS to CLT through the year

Jul–Sep 202541 flights59.0%
Oct–Dec 202515 flights—
Jan–Mar 202648 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 50% to 95%. 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 77.8% on time across 110 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on PNS to CLT logged 41 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 15 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 48 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 6 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 77.8% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 87% of the 870 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
87%
Carrier
7%
National Airspace System
4%
Extreme weather
3%

87% 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 870 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 29 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 870 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.82% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 488 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 76.9% on time across 110 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. 110 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 Envoy on PNS to CLT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 110 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 77.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 108 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.

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