Flight number record
OH 5254
PSA Airlines · Washington to White Plains
- Route
- DCA → HPN
- Departs
- 13:03
- Flights
- 342
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5254, 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 5254 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 342 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5254 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 165 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 329 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.80%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
15.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 342 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.8% 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 5254 flies
OH 5254 flies DCA to HPN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:03, used on 39 of 342 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:0339 flights11.4%
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 13:03 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and OH 5254 runs 18 points worse at 61.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
OH 5254 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 5254 is about level with it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5254thin sample | 342 | 61.1% | 76 min | 3.80% | D− |
| 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 5254 quarter by quarter
OH 5254 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 68.8% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 48.3%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 86 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 202583 flights65.8%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights48.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights63.1%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights68.8%
Scale runs 40% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5254 did best on Friday at 72.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 50.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5254 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 9,777 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.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
55% 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 9,777 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 9,777 delay minutes reported on OH 5254.
Cancellations run at 3.80%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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. 15.8% 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 5254 is not only a DCA to HPN flight. It also flew HPN to DCA (328 flights, 47.4% 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. 342 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HPN to DCAthin sample | 328 | 47.4% | 91 min | 6.71% | F− |
What to do with this
Booking OH 5254
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5254: 3.80% of its 342 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 HPN, every carrier and departure
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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.