Carrier route record
OHXNA→CLT
PSA Airlines · Bentonville to Charlotte
- Flights
- 694
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 48%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on XNA to CLT lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.1 hours on average. That rests on 694 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's XNA to CLT record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 669 completed flights
Avg delay
126 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.31%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
85.9%
Every carrier on XNA to CLT, 1,457 flights
These figures cover 694 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% 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 XNA to CLT
PSA flew 694 of the 1,457 flights on XNA to CLT, about 48% of it. Its 81.6% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 85.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 91.8% to PSA at 81.6%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 136 | 91.8% | 165 min | 0.74% | A+ |
| Envoy Air | 627 | 89.3% | 49 min | 1.75% | A |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 694 | 81.6% | 126 min | 3.31% | B− |
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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 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am95 flights92.5%
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm348 flights83.4%
- 2pm–5pm63 flights82.0%
- 5pm–8pm187 flights72.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.5% of the time, against 72.2% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 348 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on XNA to CLT through the year
July is the worst month at 67.1% on time, 27 points below February, the best at 94.4%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. August was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.5%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on XNA to CLT runs when it is late
PSA on XNA to CLT often beats the schedule: 255 of 669 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 123 late arrivals split 41 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 54 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early255 flights38.1%
- Within 15 min291 flights43.5%
- 15–29 min late41 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late28 flights4.2%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late26 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 669 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
38 of 148 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. Only 13 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on XNA to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 December 2025, 26 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 December 2025 | 26 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 May 2026 | 25 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 July 2026 | 17 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 16 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 July 2026 | 14 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 15,514 reported delay minutes.
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.31%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
8.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.1 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 754 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.
The return leg runs 81.3% on time across 694 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. 694 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 XNA to CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.31% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 669 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- XNA to CLT, every carrier
- PSA on CLT to XNA, the return leg
- American Airlines on XNA to CLT91.8%
- Envoy Air on XNA to CLT89.3%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.