Flight number record
OH 5433
PSA Airlines · Albany to Washington
- Route
- ALB → DCA
- Departs
- 12:04
- Flights
- 269
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 269 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so OH 5433 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 157 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 258 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.72%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 269 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 269 flights, with 12:09 (35 flights) and 12:11 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 12:0452 flights19.3%
- Departs 12:0935 flights13.0%
- Departs 12:1132 flights11.9%
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 12:04 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and OH 5433 runs 17 points worse at 61.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
OH 5433 next to ALB to DCA
Every carrier on ALB to DCA combined arrived on time 67.3% of the time across 1,188 flights, so OH 5433 is 6 points behind it. PSA flew 1,037 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 68.1% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 73.5%, which this flight trails by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5433thin sample | 269 | 61.6% | 83 min | 3.72% | D− |
| All PSA Airlines on ALB–DCA | 1,037 | 68.1% | 104 min | 6.17% | C− |
| All carriers on ALB–DCA | 1,188 | 67.3% | 103 min | 5.56% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 242,979 | 73.5% | 96 min | 4.80% | 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 67 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 flights63.3%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights61.8%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights50.0%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights78.0%
- Jul–Sep 202627 flights—
Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5433 did best on Saturday at 70.3% on time and worst on Monday at 56.8%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OH 5433 runs when it is late
OH 5433 often beats the schedule: 72 of 258 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 99 late arrivals split 36 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 36 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early72 flights27.9%
- Within 15 min87 flights33.7%
- 15–29 min late36 flights14.0%
- 30–59 min late27 flights10.5%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late18 flights7.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 258 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 66 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 36 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 5433
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 March 2026, 21 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2026 | 21 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 7 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 August 2026 | 6 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 August 2026 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 January 2026 | 4 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why OH 5433 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 8,183 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 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. Across 8,183 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 8,183 delay minutes reported on OH 5433.
Cancellations run at 3.72%, against 1.89% 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
14.0% 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 same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including DCA to ALB (238), CLT to TVC (76) and DCA to CVG (16), but none flew often enough under OH 5433 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ALB to DCA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 269 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 5433
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5433: 3.72% of its 269 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
- ALB to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to ALB, 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
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.