Flight number record
OH 5401
PSA Airlines · White Plains to Washington
- Route
- HPN → DCA
- Departs
- 17:29
- Flights
- 311
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5401, 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 5401 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 54.9% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 23 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 311 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5401 runs 23 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 227 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
54.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 284 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.04%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
21.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 311 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.1% 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 5401 flies
OH 5401 flies HPN to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:29, used on 142 of 311 flights, with 17:16 (62 flights) and 17:30 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:29142 flights45.7%
- Departs 17:1662 flights19.9%
- Departs 17:3042 flights13.5%
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 17:29 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and OH 5401 runs 13 points worse at 54.9%. 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 5401 next to HPN to DCA
Every carrier on HPN to DCA combined arrived on time 62.9% of the time across 1,359 flights, so OH 5401 is 8 points behind it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 20 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5401thin sample | 311 | 54.9% | 97 min | 8.04% | F− |
| All PSA Airlines on HPN–DCA | 1,359 | 62.9% | 100 min | 6.11% | D− |
| All carriers on HPN–DCA | 1,359 | 62.9% | 100 min | 6.11% | D− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5401 quarter by quarter
OH 5401 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 49.3%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 78 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 flights52.8%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights49.3%
- Jan–Mar 202683 flights62.0%
- Apr–Jun 202672 flights56.1%
Scale runs 40% to 65%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5401 did best on Friday at 63.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 37.0%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5401 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 12,000 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.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%National Airspace System
- 12%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
50% 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 12,000 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 12,470 delay minutes reported on OH 5401.
Cancellations run at 8.04%, 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. 21.1% 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 311 flights under OH 5401 in the data flew HPN to DCA. 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. 311 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 5401
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5401: 8.04% of its 311 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.
Related
Where to go next
- HPN to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to HPN, the return direction
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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.