Carrier route record
OHVPS→CLT
PSA Airlines · Valparaiso to Charlotte
- Flights
- 380
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 32%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on VPS 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, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 2.2 hours behind schedule. That rests on 380 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on VPS to CLT runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 45 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
131 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.05%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.6%
Every carrier on VPS to CLT, 1,206 flights
These figures cover 380 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on VPS to CLT
PSA flew 380 of the 1,206 flights on VPS to CLT, about 32% of it. Its 72.8% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 81.1% to PSA at 72.8%.
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 | 826 | 81.1% | 131 min | 1.09% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 380 | 72.8% | 131 min | 6.05% | C− |
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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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am41 flights75.0%
- 8am–11am8 flights—
- 11am–2pm124 flights86.3%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm207 flights63.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.2% on time, against 86.3% for the 11am–2pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 207 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on VPS to CLT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202574 flights86.1%
- Jan–Mar 2026126 flights81.0%
- Apr–Jun 202652 flights53.2%
- Jul–Sep 202698 flights59.1%
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 72.8% on time across 380 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 95 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 84.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 53.3%, a spread of 31 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on VPS to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on VPS to CLT often beats the schedule: 135 of 357 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When PSA on VPS to CLT is late it tends to be very late: 56 of its 97 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 26 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early135 flights37.8%
- Within 15 min125 flights35.0%
- 15–29 min late24 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late17 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late30 flights8.4%
- 2+ hours late26 flights7.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 103 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 7 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on VPS to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 July 2026, 32 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2026 | 32 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 23 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 June 2026 | 16 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 July 2026 | 6 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 6 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 47 to one. The split is drawn from 12,747 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,070 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 6.05%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
15.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 72.9% on time across 380 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. 380 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 6.05% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.2 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. 357 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.