Carrier route record

OHRIC→CLT

PSA Airlines · Richmond to Charlotte

Flights: 431
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 17%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on RIC to CLT lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 431 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

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

On time

80.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 424 completed flights

Avg delay

76 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.39%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.4%

Every carrier on RIC to CLT, 2,498 flights

These figures cover 431 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 RIC to CLT

PSA flew 431 of the 2,498 flights on RIC to CLT, about 17% of it. Its 80.0% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 91.4% to SkyWest at 69.0%. Two 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 RIC to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	40	91.4%	50 min	12.50%	A−
American Airlines	1,996	84.2%	85 min	2.10%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)	431	80.0%	76 min	1.39%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	31	69.0%	113 min	6.45%	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 14 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–11am—
11am–2pm185 flights87.4%
2pm–5pm227 flights73.8%
5pm–8pm14 flights—
8pm–5am5 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 87.4% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 73.8%. 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 227 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on RIC to CLT through the year

Jul–Sep 2025178 flights84.8%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights79.8%
Jan–Mar 202675 flights74.3%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights74.7%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 80.0% on time across 431 flights.

PSA on RIC to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 84.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.3%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 108 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 73.8%. 12 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 71% of the 6,421 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
71%
Carrier
15%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
5%

71% 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 6,421 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 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 6,421 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.39% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.23%.

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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 257 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 81.4% on time across 431 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. 431 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 RIC to CLT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 431 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 80.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 424 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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