Flight number record
OH 5271
PSA Airlines · Norfolk to Philadelphia
- Route
- ORF → PHL
- Departs
- 08:30
- Flights
- 320
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.5 hours on average. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 308 completed flights
Avg delay
152 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.75%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 320 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 (41 flights) and 08:08 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 08:3056 flights17.5%
- Departs 08:0041 flights12.8%
- Departs 08:0837 flights11.6%
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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and OH 5271 runs 6 points worse at 77.6%. 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 5271 next to ORF to PHL
Every carrier on ORF to PHL combined arrived on time 78.2% of the time across 854 flights, so OH 5271 is about level with it. PSA flew 757 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.3% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 73.5%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5271thin sample | 320 | 77.6% | 152 min | 3.75% | B− |
| All PSA Airlines on ORF–PHL | 757 | 79.3% | 124 min | 2.91% | B |
| All carriers on ORF–PHL | 854 | 78.2% | 122 min | 3.40% | B− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 242,979 | 73.5% | 96 min | 4.80% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5271 quarter by quarter
OH 5271 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.3%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 64 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 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights78.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.3%
- Apr–Jun 202647 flights80.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights76.3%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
By weekday, OH 5271 did best on Thursday at 84.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 67.4%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OH 5271 runs when it is late
OH 5271 often beats the schedule: 119 of 308 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 69 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 34 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early119 flights38.6%
- Within 15 min120 flights39.0%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late14 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late23 flights7.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 308 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 59 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OH 5271
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 July 2026, 32 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2026 | 32 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 12 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 February 2026 | 8 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 March 2026 | 7 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 July 2026 | 7 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OH 5271 runs late
Carrier accounts for 63% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,603 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,459 delay minutes reported on OH 5271.
Cancellations run at 3.75%, against 1.89% 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
11.0% 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.
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: 3.75% of its 320 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.5 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ORF to PHL, every carrier and departure
- PHL to ORF, the return direction
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 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.