Flight number record
OH 5424
PSA Airlines · Pensacola to Washington
- Route
- PNS → DCA
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5424, 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 5424 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.4 hours. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OH 5424's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights
Avg delay
206 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.23%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When OH 5424 flies
OH 5424 flies PNS to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 203 of 363 flights, with 06:06 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00203 flights55.9%
- Departs 06:0653 flights14.6%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and OH 5424 runs 4 points worse at 85.4%. 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 5424 next to PNS to DCA
Every carrier on PNS to DCA combined arrived on time 71.2% of the time across 1,072 flights, so OH 5424 is 14 points ahead of it. PSA flew 940 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.5% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 73.5%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5424thin sample | 363 | 85.4% | 206 min | 5.23% | A− |
| All PSA Airlines on PNS–DCA | 940 | 71.5% | 121 min | 4.79% | C− |
| All carriers on PNS–DCA | 1,072 | 71.2% | 115 min | 5.22% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 242,979 | 73.5% | 96 min | 4.80% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5424 quarter by quarter
OH 5424 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 91.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 73.3%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 73 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 flights73.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights86.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.8%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights91.8%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights88.9%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
By weekday, OH 5424 did best on Saturday at 93.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 79.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OH 5424 runs when it is late
OH 5424 often beats the schedule: 158 of 343 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When OH 5424 is late it tends to be very late: 31 of its 50 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 19 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early158 flights46.1%
- Within 15 min135 flights39.4%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.9%
- 30–59 min late9 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.5%
- 2+ hours late19 flights5.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 343 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 43 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OH 5424
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 September 2025, 27 hours 31 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2025 | 27 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 October 2025 | 26 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 September 2025 | 11 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 January 2026 | 9 hours 26 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 January 2026 | 8 hours 16 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why OH 5424 runs late
Carrier accounts for 76% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 76%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,305 delay minutes reported on OH 5424.
Cancellations run at 5.23%, against 1.89% 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
9.0% 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 816 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 363 flights under OH 5424 in the data flew PNS 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. 363 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 5424
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5424: 5.23% of its 363 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 3.4 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- PNS to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to PNS, the return direction
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) 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.