Carrier route record
OHVPS→CLT
PSA Airlines · Valparaiso to Charlotte
- Flights
- 341
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 28%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on VPS to CLT lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 341 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on VPS to CLT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 319 completed flights
Avg delay
108 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.45%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.0%
Every carrier on VPS to CLT, 1,206 flights
These figures cover 341 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.5% 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 VPS to CLT
PSA flew 341 of the 1,206 flights on VPS to CLT, about 28% of it. Its 77.1% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 83.8% to PSA at 77.1%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 865 | 83.8% | 106 min | 1.04% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 341 | 77.1% | 108 min | 6.45% | 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 16 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–8am7 flights—
- 8am–11am8 flights—
- 11am–2pm124 flights86.3%
- 2pm–5pm5 flights—
- 5pm–8pm197 flights70.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% 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 86.3% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 70.1%. 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 197 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on VPS to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202589 flights77.4%
- Oct–Dec 202574 flights86.1%
- Jan–Mar 2026126 flights81.0%
- Apr–Jun 202652 flights53.2%
Scale runs 45% 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 77.1% on time across 341 flights.
PSA on VPS to CLT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 53.2%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 85 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 87.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 61.0%. 26 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 7,911 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
- 6%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 7,911 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 22 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 7,911 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 6.45%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
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. 12.5% 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 460 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 77.7% on time across 341 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. 341 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 VPS to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.45% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 319 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.