Carrier route record

OHSRQ→CLT

PSA Airlines · Sarasota to Charlotte

Flights: 267
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on SRQ to CLT lands a B+, 6 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 an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 267 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's SRQ to CLT record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 58 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 265 completed flights

Avg delay

96 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.37%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.2%

Every carrier on SRQ to CLT, 1,426 flights

These figures cover 267 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 SRQ to CLT

PSA flew 267 of the 1,426 flights on SRQ to CLT, about 19% of it. Its 83.4% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 85.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 87.0% to Envoy at 75.7%. 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 SRQ to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines	1,021	87.0%	75 min	2.06%	A
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	267	83.4%	96 min	0.37%	B+
Envoy Airthin sample	138	75.7%	59 min	1.45%	B

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 267 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am23 flights—
11am–2pm178 flights84.8%
2pm–5pm14 flights—
5pm–8pm52 flights76.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 84.8% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 76.5%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 178 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on SRQ to CLT through the year

Jul–Sep 202563 flights90.5%
Oct–Dec 2025106 flights83.8%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
Apr–Jun 202693 flights77.2%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. 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 83.4% on time across 267 flights.

PSA on SRQ to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 77.2%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 89 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 93.8% on time and Saturday the weakest at 72.0%. 22 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 53% of the 4,220 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
53%
Extreme weather
37%
National Airspace System
6%
Carrier
4%

Extreme weather accounts for 37% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 5.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,220 reported delay minutes.

53% 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 4,220 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 1 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.

Cancellations are rare at 0.37%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.0% 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.

The 547 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 runs 83.5% on time across 267 flights, within half 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. 267 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 SRQ to CLT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 267 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 83.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 265 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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