Flight number record

OH 5271

PSA Airlines · Norfolk to Philadelphia

Route: ORF → PHL
Departs: 08:30
Flights: 320
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5271, 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 5271 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

On time

74.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 311 completed flights

Avg delay

112 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.81%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

10.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 320 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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 5271 flies

OH 5271 flies ORF to PHL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:30, used on 56 of 320 flights, with 08:00 (40 flights) and 08:07 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:3056 flights17.5%
Departs 08:0040 flights12.5%
Departs 08:0737 flights11.6%

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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and OH 5271 runs 9 points worse at 74.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

OH 5271 next to ORF to PHL

Every carrier on ORF to PHL combined arrived on time 78.1% of the time across 826 flights, so OH 5271 is 3 points behind it. PSA flew 779 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.9% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, close to this flight's figure.

OH 5271 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OH 5271thin sample	320	74.9%	112 min	2.81%	C
All PSA Airlines on ORF–PHL	779	77.9%	103 min	2.31%	B
All carriers on ORF–PHL	826	78.1%	103 min	2.18%	B
PSA Airlines, whole network	241,957	74.6%	94 min	4.34%	C−

Across the year

OH 5271 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OH 5271 held fairly steady: 71.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 72.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 80.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights71.7%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights78.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.3%
Apr–Jun 202647 flights80.0%

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OH 5271 did best on Friday at 86.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 67.4%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OH 5271 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 8,738 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.

Carrier
51%
Late-arriving aircraft
36%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
0%

36% 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 8,738 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 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 8,738 delay minutes reported on OH 5271.

Cancellations run at 2.81%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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. 10.9% 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.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including DCA to OKC (1) and OKC to DCA (1), but none flew often enough under OH 5271 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORF to PHL only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 320 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 5271

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5271: 2.81% of its 320 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.

Where to go next

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.

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