Flight number record
OH 5401
PSA Airlines · White Plains to Washington
- Route
- HPN → DCA
- Departs
- 17:29
- Flights
- 312
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 53.5% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 24 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average close to two hours. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 312 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so OH 5401 runs 24 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 238 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
53.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 284 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.33%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
22.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 312 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 22.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 91 of 312 flights, with 17:16 (62 flights) and 17:30 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 17:2991 flights29.2%
- Departs 17:1662 flights19.9%
- Departs 17:3042 flights13.5%
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 17:29 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and OH 5401 runs 15 points worse at 53.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
OH 5401 next to HPN to DCA
Every carrier on HPN to DCA combined arrived on time 59.6% of the time across 1,351 flights, so OH 5401 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 73.5%, which this flight trails by 20 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5401thin sample | 312 | 53.5% | 104 min | 8.33% | F− |
| All PSA Airlines on HPN–DCA | 1,351 | 59.6% | 110 min | 7.03% | D− |
| All carriers on HPN–DCA | 1,351 | 59.6% | 110 min | 7.03% | D− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 242,979 | 73.5% | 96 min | 4.80% | 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 Jul–Sep 2026 at 43.5%, a swing of 19 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights49.3%
- Jan–Mar 202683 flights62.0%
- Apr–Jun 202672 flights56.1%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights43.5%
Scale runs 35% to 65%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5401 did best on Wednesday at 63.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 38.3%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OH 5401 runs when it is late
OH 5401 often beats the schedule: 75 of 284 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 132 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 34 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 63 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early75 flights26.4%
- Within 15 min77 flights27.1%
- 15–29 min late35 flights12.3%
- 30–59 min late34 flights12.0%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights10.2%
- 2+ hours late34 flights12.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 284 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 109 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 9 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 32 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DCA.
The worst days
Worst days for OH 5401
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 August 2026, 21 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across August, December, July and April, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2026 | 21 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 December 2025 | 18 hours 41 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 August 2026 | 5 hours 46 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 July 2026 | 5 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 April 2026 | 5 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why OH 5401 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 18%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 13,673 delay minutes reported on OH 5401.
Cancellations run at 8.33%, against 1.89% 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
22.2% 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.
Every one of the 312 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. 312 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: 8.33% of its 312 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.
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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.