Carrier route record

OHXNA→CLT

PSA Airlines · Bentonville to Charlotte

Flights: 649
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 44%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on XNA 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 close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 649 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's XNA to CLT record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 56 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 632 completed flights

Avg delay

121 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.62%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

86.3%

Every carrier on XNA to CLT, 1,483 flights

These figures cover 649 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 XNA to CLT

PSA flew 649 of the 1,483 flights on XNA to CLT, about 44% of it. Its 83.2% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 86.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 88.8% to PSA at 83.2%. 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 XNA to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	207	88.8%	213 min	0.48%	A+
Envoy Air	627	88.6%	49 min	1.75%	A
PSA Airlines (this page)	649	83.2%	121 min	2.62%	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 20 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–8am95 flights92.5%
8am–11am1 flights—
11am–2pm318 flights86.1%
2pm–5pm51 flights84.3%
5pm–8pm184 flights73.0%
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 73.0% 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 318 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on XNA to CLT through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, September worst

Delays peak in September, when the on-time rate falls to 71.1%. February is the strongest month at 94.4%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 23 points. July was the busiest month here, with 82 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 93.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.2%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 13,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
41%
Carrier
41%
Extreme weather
10%
National Airspace System
7%

41% 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 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 12,791 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, 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 5,270 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 2.62%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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

7.6% 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 close to two 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. 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 82.8% on time across 649 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. 649 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: treat all of this as provisional. 649 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 83.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 632 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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