Carrier route record
OHPNS→CLT
PSA Airlines · Pensacola to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,200
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 65%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on PNS to CLT lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.5 hours on average. That rests on 1,200 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's PNS to CLT record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,165 completed flights
Avg delay
147 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.67%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.5%
Every carrier on PNS to CLT, 1,847 flights
These figures cover 1,200 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% 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 PNS to CLT
PSA flew 1,200 of the 1,847 flights on PNS to CLT, most of the route. Its 82.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.6% to PSA at 82.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 70 | 88.6% | 34 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 577 | 85.4% | 166 min | 1.39% | A |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 1,200 | 82.3% | 147 min | 2.67% | B |
Flight by flight
PSA flight numbers on PNS to CLT
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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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am557 flights88.4%
- 8am–11am80 flights74.7%
- 11am–2pm143 flights85.9%
- 2pm–5pm323 flights76.8%
- 5pm–8pm97 flights66.3%
- 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 88.4% of the time, against 66.3% for the evening window. That is 22 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 557 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on PNS to CLT through the year
December is the weak month at 72.2% on time, against 92.2% in October. 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. December was the busiest month here, with 156 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 80.0%, a spread of 7 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on PNS to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on PNS to CLT often beats the schedule: 521 of 1,165 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When PSA on PNS to CLT is late it tends to be very late: 108 of its 206 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 59 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early521 flights44.7%
- Within 15 min438 flights37.6%
- 15–29 min late53 flights4.5%
- 30–59 min late45 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late49 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late59 flights5.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,165 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
44 of 232 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. Only 18 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on PNS to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 September 2025, 34 hours 11 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2025 | 34 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 25 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 January 2026 | 25 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 October 2025 | 23 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 19 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 30,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
- 5%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 30,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 30,296 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 16,000 of the 30,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.67%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
9.3% 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.
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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.9% on time across 1,199 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,200 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking PSA on PNS to CLT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. October runs 92.2% on time and December 72.2%, a swing of 20 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 1,165 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.