Flight number record
OH 5039
PSA Airlines · Washington to Grand Rapids
- Route
- DCA → GRR
- Departs
- 12:30
- Flights
- 263
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5039, check with PSA Airlines. PSA Airlines flies under contract for larger airlines, so a ticket for this flight may show a different airline code and number.
OH 5039 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 263 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 254 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.04%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
13.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 263 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.0% 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.
Schedule
When OH 5039 flies
OH 5039 flies DCA to GRR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:30, used on 32 of 263 flights, with 11:40 (29 flights) and 11:42 (28 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:3032 flights12.2%
- Departs 11:4029 flights11.0%
- Departs 11:4228 flights10.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 12:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and OH 5039 runs 4 points worse at 74.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
OH 5039 next to DCA to GRR
Every carrier on DCA to GRR combined arrived on time 65.2% of the time across 731 flights, so OH 5039 is 10 points ahead of it. PSA flew 720 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.0% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5039thin sample | 263 | 74.8% | 80 min | 3.04% | C− |
| All PSA Airlines on DCA–GRR | 720 | 65.0% | 84 min | 5.56% | C− |
| All carriers on DCA–GRR | 731 | 65.2% | 83 min | 5.75% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5039 quarter by quarter
OH 5039 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 85.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 63.4%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 88 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.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights85.6%
- Oct–Dec 202574 flights63.4%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights71.6%
- Apr–Jun 202612 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5039 did best on Saturday at 81.6% on time and worst on Friday at 67.6%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5039 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 68% of the 5,125 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.
- 68%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
68% 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 5,125 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 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 5,125 delay minutes reported on OH 5039.
Cancellations run at 3.04%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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 routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 13.0% 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.
The 524 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 same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including GRR to DCA (219), ATL to CLT (43) and CLT to ATL (43), but none flew often enough under OH 5039 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DCA to GRR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 263 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 OH 5039
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5039: 3.04% of its 263 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to GRR, every carrier and departure
- GRR to DCA, the return direction
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on-time record
- Every PSA Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
A flight number here means PSA Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
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.