Flight number record
OH 5236
PSA Airlines · Washington to White Plains
- Route
- DCA → HPN
- Departs
- 16:59
- Flights
- 347
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5236, 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 5236 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 53.8% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 24 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 347 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5236 runs 24 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 238 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
53.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.49%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
21.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 347 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.9% 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 5236 flies
OH 5236 flies DCA to HPN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:59, used on 150 of 347 flights, with 17:00 (52 flights) and 16:45 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:59150 flights43.2%
- Departs 17:0052 flights15.0%
- Departs 16:4537 flights10.7%
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 5236 runs 19 points worse at 53.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
OH 5236 next to DCA to HPN
Every carrier on DCA to HPN combined arrived on time 62.5% of the time across 1,362 flights, so OH 5236 is 9 points behind it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 21 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5236thin sample | 347 | 53.8% | 88 min | 7.49% | F− |
| All PSA Airlines on DCA–HPN | 1,362 | 62.5% | 82 min | 6.17% | D− |
| All carriers on DCA–HPN | 1,362 | 62.5% | 82 min | 6.17% | D− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5236 quarter by quarter
OH 5236 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 62.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 40.3%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 87 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 202588 flights53.0%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights62.2%
- Jan–Mar 202683 flights40.3%
- Apr–Jun 202687 flights57.8%
Scale runs 30% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5236 did best on Saturday at 68.4% on time and worst on Thursday at 45.7%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5236 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 13,000 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.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
56% 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 7 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 13,021 delay minutes reported on OH 5236.
Cancellations run at 7.49%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twelve 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. 21.9% 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.
Every one of the 347 flights under OH 5236 in the data flew DCA to HPN. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 347 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 5236
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5236: 7.49% of its 347 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to HPN, every carrier and departure
- HPN to DCA, the return direction
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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.