Flight number record
OH 5101
PSA Airlines · Albany to Washington
- Route
- ALB → DCA
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5101, 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 5101 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.6 hours. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OH 5101's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 90 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 238 completed flights
Avg delay
216 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.67%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 255 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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.
Schedule
When OH 5101 flies
OH 5101 flies ALB to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 94 of 255 flights, with 05:15 (29 flights) and 05:13 (27 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:0094 flights36.9%
- Departs 05:1529 flights11.4%
- Departs 05:1327 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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and OH 5101 runs 3 points worse at 86.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
OH 5101 next to ALB to DCA
Every carrier on ALB to DCA combined arrived on time 68.1% of the time across 1,183 flights, so OH 5101 is 19 points ahead of it. PSA flew 1,090 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.8% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5101thin sample | 255 | 86.6% | 216 min | 6.67% | A− |
| All PSA Airlines on ALB–DCA | 1,090 | 67.8% | 104 min | 5.50% | C− |
| All carriers on ALB–DCA | 1,183 | 68.1% | 102 min | 5.24% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5101 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OH 5101 held fairly steady: 86.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202588 flights86.9%
- Oct–Dec 202575 flights84.7%
- Jan–Mar 202646 flights84.6%
- Apr–Jun 202646 flights90.7%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5101 ranged from 82.5% on Friday to 90.0% on Thursday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why OH 5101 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 57% of the 6,897 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.
- 57%Carrier
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, 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 3,958 of the 6,897 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,897 delay minutes reported on OH 5101.
Cancellations run at 6.67%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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 routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.7% 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 about 3.6 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including TVC to PHL (6), DCA to BUF (2) and DFW to CHA (2), but none flew often enough under OH 5101 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ALB to DCA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 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 5101
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5101: 6.67% of its 255 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 3.6 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ALB to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to ALB, the return direction
- PSA Airlines 5433 on the same route61.7%
- 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.