Flight number record

OH 5435

PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Dayton

Route: CLT → DAY
Departs: 18:31
Flights: 338
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5435, 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 5435 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 338 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5435 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 66 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights

Avg delay

92 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.18%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

13.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 338 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.8% 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 5435 flies

OH 5435 flies CLT to DAY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:31, used on 44 of 338 flights, with 18:26 (37 flights) and 19:00 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:3144 flights13.0%
Departs 18:2637 flights10.9%
Departs 19:0035 flights10.4%

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 18:31 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and OH 5435 runs 3 points better at 71.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

OH 5435 next to CLT to DAY

Every carrier on CLT to DAY combined arrived on time 74.6% of the time across 1,340 flights, so OH 5435 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

OH 5435 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OH 5435thin sample	338	71.0%	92 min	1.18%	C
All PSA Airlines on CLT–DAY	1,340	74.6%	80 min	1.27%	C
All carriers on CLT–DAY	1,340	74.6%	80 min	1.27%	C
PSA Airlines, whole network	241,957	74.6%	94 min	4.34%	C−

Across the year

OH 5435 quarter by quarter

OH 5435 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 65.9%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 85 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 202586 flights80.2%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights65.9%
Jan–Mar 202683 flights68.4%
Apr–Jun 202678 flights69.2%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OH 5435 did best on Wednesday at 90.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 60.0%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OH 5435 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 8,919 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
43%
Carrier
38%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
9%

43% 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 8,919 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 8,919 delay minutes reported on OH 5435.

Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

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. 13.8% 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.

Every one of the 338 flights under OH 5435 in the data flew CLT to DAY. 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. 338 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 5435

For a booking, OH 5435 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 13.8% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

Where to go next

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.

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