Carrier route record
OHSAV→CLT
PSA Airlines · Savannah to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,446
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 70%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on SAV to CLT earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 1,446 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's SAV to CLT record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,413 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.21%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
85.4%
Every carrier on SAV to CLT, 2,070 flights
These figures cover 1,446 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 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
PSA against every carrier on SAV to CLT
PSA flew 1,446 of the 2,070 flights on SAV to CLT, most of the route. Its 87.3% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 85.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 96.4% to American at 80.3%. 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 | 28 | 96.4% | 19 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 1,446 | 87.3% | 83 min | 2.21% | A |
| American Airlines | 596 | 80.3% | 86 min | 0.34% | B+ |
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 17 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–8am407 flights93.9%
- 8am–11am273 flights89.3%
- 11am–2pm338 flights87.3%
- 2pm–5pm207 flights79.7%
- 5pm–8pm150 flights81.9%
- 8pm–5am71 flights76.5%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.9% of the time, against 76.5% for the overnight window. That is 17 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 407 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on SAV to CLT through the year
December is the weak month at 76.1% on time, against 96.4% 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. October was the busiest month here, with 167 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 83.2%. 6 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 63% of the 15,000 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.
- 63%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
63% 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 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 23 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 14,788 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 93.9% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.21% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.07%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.6% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 213 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 78.4% on time across 1,450 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 1,446 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 SAV to CLT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. October runs 96.4% on time and December 76.1%, a swing of 20 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 1,413 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SAV to CLT, every carrier
- PSA on CLT to SAV, the return leg
- American Airlines on SAV to CLT80.3%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.