Flight number record

OH 5305

PSA Airlines · Washington to Akron

Route: DCA → CAK
Departs: 15:06
Flights: 261
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5305, 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 5305 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 261 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5305 runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 181 extra late arrivals.

On time

59.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights

Avg delay

94 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.36%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

21.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 261 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.9% 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 5305 flies

OH 5305 flies DCA to CAK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:06, used on 35 of 261 flights, with 19:52 (33 flights) and 19:50 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:0635 flights13.4%
Departs 19:5233 flights12.6%
Departs 19:5032 flights12.3%

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 15:06 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and OH 5305 runs 13 points worse at 59.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

OH 5305 next to DCA to CAK

Every carrier on DCA to CAK combined arrived on time 57.8% of the time across 325 flights, so OH 5305 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 15 points.

OH 5305 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OH 5305thin sample	261	59.5%	94 min	5.36%	D−
All PSA Airlines on DCA–CAKthin sample	325	57.8%	100 min	5.23%	D−
All carriers on DCA–CAKthin sample	325	57.8%	100 min	5.23%	D−
PSA Airlines, whole network	241,957	74.6%	94 min	4.34%	C−

Across the year

OH 5305 quarter by quarter

OH 5305 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 47.1%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 65 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 202592 flights60.7%
Oct–Dec 202582 flights70.4%
Jan–Mar 202652 flights47.9%
Apr–Jun 202635 flights47.1%

Scale runs 40% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OH 5305 did best on Tuesday at 66.7% on time and worst on Thursday at 51.4%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OH 5305 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 9,414 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
57%
Carrier
21%
Extreme weather
11%
National Airspace System
11%

Extreme weather accounts for 11% 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 1.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,414 delay minutes reported on OH 5305.

Cancellations run at 5.36%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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. 21.9% 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 CAK to DCA (15) and MEM to DCA (5), but none flew often enough under OH 5305 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DCA to CAK only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 261 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 5305

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5305: 5.36% of its 261 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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