Flight number record

OH 5289

PSA Airlines · Washington to White Plains

Route: DCA → HPN
Departs: 22:05
Flights: 314
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5289, 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 5289 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 314 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5289 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 189 extra late arrivals.

On time

58.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 286 completed flights

Avg delay

88 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

8.60%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

18.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 314 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.5% 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 5289 flies

OH 5289 flies DCA to HPN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:05, used on 82 of 314 flights, with 18:41 (46 flights) and 18:44 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:0582 flights26.1%
Departs 18:4146 flights14.6%
Departs 18:4445 flights14.3%

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 22:05 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and OH 5289 runs 12 points worse at 58.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

OH 5289 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 5289 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 16 points.

OH 5289 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OH 5289thin sample	314	58.7%	88 min	8.60%	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 5289 quarter by quarter

OH 5289 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 68.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 55.4%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 79 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 202578 flights55.7%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights55.4%
Jan–Mar 202683 flights56.6%
Apr–Jun 202675 flights68.2%

Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OH 5289 did best on Tuesday at 66.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 48.9%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OH 5289 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 10,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
56%
Carrier
24%
Extreme weather
10%
National Airspace System
10%
Security
0%

56% 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 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 10,321 delay minutes reported on OH 5289.

Cancellations run at 8.60%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve 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. 18.5% 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.

Every one of the 314 flights under OH 5289 in the data flew DCA to HPN. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 314 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 5289

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5289: 8.60% of its 314 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.

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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