Flight number record
OH 5424
PSA Airlines · Pensacola to Washington
- Route
- PNS → DCA
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 lands a B−, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 6.0 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OH 5424's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 48 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
359 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.67%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
12.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% 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 5424 flies
OH 5424 flies PNS to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 144 of 364 flights, with 06:06 (53 flights) and 06:03 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:00144 flights39.6%
- Departs 06:0653 flights14.6%
- Departs 06:0342 flights11.5%
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 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 7 points worse at 82.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
OH 5424 next to PNS to DCA
Every carrier on PNS to DCA combined arrived on time 72.1% of the time across 1,074 flights, so OH 5424 is 10 points ahead of it. PSA flew 909 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.9% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5424thin sample | 364 | 82.4% | 359 min | 4.67% | B− |
| All PSA Airlines on PNS–DCA | 909 | 71.9% | 154 min | 4.40% | C− |
| All carriers on PNS–DCA | 1,074 | 72.1% | 140 min | 4.84% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | 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 71.3%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 91 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 flights71.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights86.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.8%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights91.8%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5424 did best on Saturday at 90.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 77.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5424 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 73% of the 22,000 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.
- 73%Carrier
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%Extreme weather
- 3%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 16,000 of the 22,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 21,924 delay minutes reported on OH 5424.
Cancellations run at 4.67%, 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. 12.4% 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 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
Every one of the 364 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. 364 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: 4.67% of its 364 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 6.0 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.