Flight number record
OH 5433
PSA Airlines · Albany to Washington
- Route
- ALB → DCA
- Departs
- 12:04
- Flights
- 304
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5433, 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 5433 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 304 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5433 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 159 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 290 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.95%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
14.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 304 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.1% 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 5433 flies
OH 5433 flies ALB to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:04, used on 52 of 304 flights, with 12:23 (33 flights) and 12:21 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:0452 flights17.1%
- Departs 12:2333 flights10.9%
- Departs 12:2132 flights10.5%
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 12:04 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and OH 5433 runs 17 points worse at 61.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
OH 5433 next to ALB to DCA
Every carrier on ALB to DCA combined arrived on time 68.1% of the time across 1,183 flights, so OH 5433 is 6 points behind it. PSA flew 1,090 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.8% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5433thin sample | 304 | 61.7% | 75 min | 3.95% | D− |
| All PSA Airlines on ALB–DCA | 1,090 | 67.8% | 104 min | 5.50% | C− |
| All carriers on ALB–DCA | 1,183 | 68.1% | 102 min | 5.24% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5433 quarter by quarter
OH 5433 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 78.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 50.0%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 76 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 flights62.5%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights61.8%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights50.0%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights78.0%
Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5433 did best on Friday at 67.4% on time and worst on Monday at 53.7%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5433 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 8,326 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.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
48% 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 8,326 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 8,326 delay minutes reported on OH 5433.
Cancellations run at 3.95%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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. 14.1% 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.
OH 5433 is not only a ALB to DCA flight. It also flew DCA to ALB (300 flights, 79.4% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 304 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DCA to ALBthin sample | 300 | 79.4% | 74 min | 3.00% | B |
What to do with this
Booking OH 5433
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5433: 3.95% of its 304 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ALB to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to ALB, the return direction
- PSA Airlines 5101 on the same route86.6%
- 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.