Flight number record
OH 5095
PSA Airlines · Washington to Columbia
- Route
- DCA → CAE
- Departs
- 16:59
- Flights
- 268
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5095, 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 5095 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 268 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5095 runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 155 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.60%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
15.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 268 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.0% 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 5095 flies
OH 5095 flies DCA to CAE without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:59, used on 32 of 268 flights, with 17:31 (28 flights) and 17:25 (27 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:5932 flights11.9%
- Departs 17:3128 flights10.4%
- Departs 17:2527 flights10.1%
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 16:59 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and OH 5095 runs 10 points worse at 62.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
OH 5095 next to DCA to CAE
Every carrier on DCA to CAE combined arrived on time 68.9% of the time across 1,092 flights, so OH 5095 is 7 points behind it. PSA flew 926 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 66.4% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5095thin sample | 268 | 62.1% | 69 min | 5.60% | D− |
| All PSA Airlines on DCA–CAE | 926 | 66.4% | 68 min | 6.05% | C− |
| All carriers on DCA–CAE | 1,092 | 68.9% | 67 min | 5.86% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5095 quarter by quarter
OH 5095 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 55.4%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 89 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 202591 flights60.2%
- Oct–Dec 202576 flights70.7%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights55.4%
- Apr–Jun 202612 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5095 did best on Tuesday at 75.0% on time and worst on Friday at 44.4%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 31 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5095 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 6,653 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.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
60% 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 6,653 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 6,653 delay minutes reported on OH 5095.
Cancellations run at 5.60%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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. 15.0% 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 same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including CAE to DCA (222), DCA to BHM (38) and BTV to PHL (34), but none flew often enough under OH 5095 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DCA to CAE only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 268 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 5095
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5095: 5.60% of its 268 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 CAE, every carrier and departure
- CAE 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.