Flight number record
OH 5254
PSA Airlines · Washington to White Plains
- Route
- DCA → HPN
- Departs
- 13:03
- Flights
- 340
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 earns a D−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 56.7% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 21 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so OH 5254 runs 21 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 206 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
56.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 328 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.24%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
18.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 340 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 340 flights, with 13:25 (38 flights) and 13:27 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 13:0339 flights11.5%
- Departs 13:2538 flights11.2%
- Departs 13:2734 flights10.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
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 78.3%, and OH 5254 runs 22 points worse at 56.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
OH 5254 next to DCA to HPN
Every carrier on DCA to HPN combined arrived on time 61.6% of the time across 1,354 flights, so OH 5254 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 73.5%, which this flight trails by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5254thin sample | 340 | 56.7% | 82 min | 3.24% | D− |
| All PSA Airlines on DCA–HPN | 1,354 | 61.6% | 89 min | 7.31% | D− |
| All carriers on DCA–HPN | 1,354 | 61.6% | 89 min | 7.31% | D− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 242,979 | 73.5% | 96 min | 4.80% | 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 Jul–Sep 2026 at 38.5%, a swing of 30 points on roughly 85 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights48.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights63.1%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights68.8%
- Jul–Sep 202655 flights38.5%
Scale runs 30% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5254 did best on Friday at 69.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 47.2%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OH 5254 runs when it is late
The 142 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 51 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 60 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early45 flights13.7%
- Within 15 min141 flights43.0%
- 15–29 min late31 flights9.5%
- 30–59 min late51 flights15.5%
- 1–2 hours late31 flights9.5%
- 2+ hours late29 flights8.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 328 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 138 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 14 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 18 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at HPN.
The worst days
Worst days for OH 5254
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 November 2025, 7 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across November, January, October, August and December, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 November 2025 | 7 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 6 hours 56 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 October 2025 | 6 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 August 2026 | 5 hours 12 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 3 December 2025 | 4 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OH 5254 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 11,676 delay minutes reported on OH 5254.
Cancellations run at 3.24%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
18.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 (327 flights, 43.2% 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. 340 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 | 327 | 43.2% | 111 min | 7.03% | F− |
What to do with this
Booking OH 5254
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5254: 3.24% of its 340 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.
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.