Flight number record
OH 5261
PSA Airlines · Dayton to Washington
- Route
- DAY → DCA
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 339
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5261, 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 5261 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 339 flights, with a median arrival 19 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OH 5261's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 85 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 323 completed flights
Avg delay
120 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.54%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 339 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 19 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.
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Schedule
When OH 5261 flies
OH 5261 flies DAY to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 219 of 339 flights.
- Departs 06:00219 flights64.6%
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 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 5261 runs 4 points worse at 85.8%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
OH 5261 next to DAY to DCA
Every carrier on DAY to DCA combined arrived on time 70.8% of the time across 959 flights, so OH 5261 is 15 points ahead of it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 73.5%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5261thin sample | 339 | 85.8% | 120 min | 3.54% | A− |
| All PSA Airlines on DAY–DCA | 959 | 70.8% | 114 min | 4.17% | C− |
| All carriers on DAY–DCA | 959 | 70.8% | 114 min | 4.17% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 242,979 | 73.5% | 96 min | 4.80% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5261 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OH 5261 held fairly steady: 83.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 85.5% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 87.0% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights83.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.5%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights85.5%
- Jul–Sep 202648 flights87.0%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5261 ranged from 82.4% on Thursday to 89.7% on Saturday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 7 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late OH 5261 runs when it is late
OH 5261 often beats the schedule: 190 of 323 completed flights, 59%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 46 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early190 flights58.8%
- Within 15 min87 flights26.9%
- 15–29 min late10 flights3.1%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.6%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late13 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 323 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OH 5261
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 December 2025, 10 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 December 2025 | 10 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 March 2026 | 7 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 7 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 July 2026 | 7 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 March 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OH 5261 runs late
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 5,498 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,703 of the 5,498 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,498 delay minutes reported on OH 5261.
Cancellations run at 3.54%, 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
6.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including DCA to ECP (21) and ECP to DCA (21), but none flew often enough under OH 5261 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DAY to DCA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 339 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 5261
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5261: 3.54% of its 339 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DAY to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to DAY, the return direction
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.