Carrier route record

OHPNS→CLT

PSA Airlines · Pensacola to Charlotte

Flights: 1,192
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 62%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.5 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,192 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 48 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,160 completed flights

Avg delay

153 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.43%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.7%

Every carrier on PNS to CLT, 1,934 flights

These figures cover 1,192 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 PNS to CLT

PSA flew 1,192 of the 1,934 flights on PNS to CLT, most of the route. Its 82.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 87.2% to Envoy at 77.8%. 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.

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 (this page)	1,192	82.4%	153 min	2.43%	B
Envoy Airthin sample	110	77.8%	36 min	1.82%	B

Flight by flight

PSA flight numbers on PNS to CLT

OH 535305:2384.6% · 278 flights

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 21 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–8am544 flights87.6%
8am–11am92 flights72.5%
11am–2pm181 flights86.1%
2pm–5pm272 flights78.5%
5pm–8pm103 flights67.0%
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 87.6% of the time, against 67.0% for the evening window. That is 21 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 544 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on PNS to CLT through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.October best, December worst

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 86.3% on time and Monday the weakest at 79.6%. 7 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 31,000 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.

Carrier
56%
Late-arriving aircraft
35%
Extreme weather
5%
National Airspace System
4%
Security
0%

35% 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 31,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 31,180 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, 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 18,000 of the 31,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 2.43% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.25%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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 73.7% on time across 1,191 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.

The sample behind these figures is 1,192 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. 1,160 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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