Flight number record
OH 5150
PSA Airlines · Manchester to Washington
- Route
- MHT → DCA
- Departs
- 12:08
- Flights
- 276
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5150, 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 5150 draws a C−. About 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 276 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5150 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 104 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 259 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.80%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
11.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 276 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 5150 flies
OH 5150 flies MHT to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:08, used on 59 of 276 flights, with 12:05 (46 flights) and 12:13 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:0859 flights21.4%
- Departs 12:0546 flights16.7%
- Departs 12:1337 flights13.4%
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 12:08 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and OH 5150 runs 12 points worse at 67.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
OH 5150 next to MHT to DCA
Every carrier on MHT to DCA combined arrived on time 70.8% of the time across 1,108 flights, so OH 5150 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5150thin sample | 276 | 67.2% | 80 min | 5.80% | C− |
| All PSA Airlines on MHT–DCA | 1,108 | 70.8% | 96 min | 5.96% | C− |
| All carriers on MHT–DCA | 1,108 | 70.8% | 96 min | 5.96% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5150 quarter by quarter
OH 5150 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 79.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 61.0%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 92 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 flights79.8%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights63.2%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights61.0%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5150 did best on Tuesday at 78.4% on time and worst on Friday at 56.8%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5150 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 6,791 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.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 21%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
49% 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 6,791 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 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 6,791 delay minutes reported on OH 5150.
Cancellations run at 5.80%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.6% 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.
OH 5150 is not only a MHT to DCA flight. It also flew DCA to MHT (275 flights, 78.4% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 276 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DCA to MHTthin sample | 275 | 78.4% | 68 min | 5.82% | B− |
What to do with this
Booking OH 5150
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5150: 5.80% of its 276 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
- MHT to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to MHT, the return direction
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- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
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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.