Flight number record
OH 5632
PSA Airlines · Philadelphia to Norfolk
- Route
- PHL → ORF
- Departs
- 18:40
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5632, 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 5632 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5632 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 60 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights
Avg delay
111 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.12%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
16.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.1% 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 5632 flies
OH 5632 flies PHL to ORF without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:40, used on 94 of 364 flights, with 18:35 (47 flights) and 19:55 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 18:4094 flights25.8%
- Departs 18:3547 flights12.9%
- Departs 19:5541 flights11.3%
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 18:40 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and OH 5632 runs 3 points better at 71.6%. 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 5632 next to PHL to ORF
Every carrier on PHL to ORF combined arrived on time 74.6% of the time across 825 flights, so OH 5632 is 3 points behind it. PSA flew 778 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.9% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5632thin sample | 364 | 71.6% | 111 min | 4.12% | C− |
| All PSA Airlines on PHL–ORF | 778 | 73.9% | 99 min | 3.73% | C− |
| All carriers on PHL–ORF | 825 | 74.6% | 98 min | 3.52% | C− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5632 quarter by quarter
OH 5632 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 79.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 64.8%, a swing of 15 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 flights64.8%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights72.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights69.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.5%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5632 did best on Tuesday at 84.6% on time and worst on Thursday at 58.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5632 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 11,000 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.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
50% 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 11,000 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 10,973 delay minutes reported on OH 5632.
Cancellations run at 4.12%, 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. 16.1% 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.
Every one of the 364 flights under OH 5632 in the data flew PHL to ORF. 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 5632
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5632: 4.12% of its 364 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- PHL to ORF, every carrier and departure
- ORF to PHL, the return direction
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 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.