Carrier route record
OHSHV→CLT
PSA Airlines · Shreveport to Charlotte
- Flights
- 140
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on SHV to CLT sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 140 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on SHV to CLT runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 59 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 138 completed flights
Avg delay
116 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.43%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
79.4%
Every carrier on SHV to CLT, 746 flights
These figures cover 140 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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 SHV to CLT
PSA flew 140 of the 746 flights on SHV to CLT, about 19% of it. Its 71.7% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 81.2% to PSA at 71.7%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 606 | 81.2% | 123 min | 2.64% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 140 | 71.7% | 116 min | 1.43% | C |
Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 140 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm68 flights70.1%
- 2pm–5pm9 flights—
- 5pm–8pm63 flights77.4%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 70.1% on time against 77.4% for 5pm–8pm. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 68 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on SHV to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202586 flights81.2%
- Oct–Dec 202516 flights—
- Jan–Mar 20263 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202635 flights50.0%
Scale runs 40% to 85%. 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 71.7% on time across 140 flights.
Split by quarter, PSA on SHV to CLT logged 86 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 16 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 3 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 35 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 71.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 4,529 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.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
48% 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 4,529 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 4,529 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, 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 1,676 of the 4,529 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.43% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 10.9% 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.
The 764 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.3% on time across 140 flights, 8 points above 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 140 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 SHV to CLT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 140 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 71.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 138 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
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.