Flight number record
OH 5662
PSA Airlines · Washington to Norfolk
- Route
- DCA → ORF
- Departs
- 22:00
- Flights
- 281
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OH 5662, 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 5662 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in two 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 281 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OH 5662 runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 183 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
59.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 258 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.19%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
19.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 281 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.0% 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 5662 flies
OH 5662 flies DCA to ORF without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:00, used on 165 of 281 flights, with 20:47 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 22:00165 flights58.7%
- Departs 20:4734 flights12.1%
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 22:00 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and OH 5662 runs 11 points worse at 59.3%. 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 5662 next to DCA to ORF
Every carrier on DCA to ORF combined arrived on time 63.9% of the time across 1,042 flights, so OH 5662 is 5 points behind it. PSA flew 1,014 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 63.3% on time. Across its whole network PSA Airlines managed 74.6%, which this flight trails by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH 5662thin sample | 281 | 59.3% | 84 min | 8.19% | D− |
| All PSA Airlines on DCA–ORF | 1,014 | 63.3% | 75 min | 4.64% | D− |
| All carriers on DCA–ORF | 1,042 | 63.9% | 75 min | 4.61% | D− |
| PSA Airlines, whole network | 241,957 | 74.6% | 94 min | 4.34% | C− |
Across the year
OH 5662 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OH 5662 held fairly steady: 60.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 58.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 59.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 58.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202591 flights60.8%
- Oct–Dec 202546 flights58.7%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights59.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights58.1%
Scale runs 50% to 65%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OH 5662 did best on Saturday at 84.2% on time and worst on Friday at 44.4%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 40 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OH 5662 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 8,865 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.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
59% 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 8,865 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 8,865 delay minutes reported on OH 5662.
Cancellations run at 8.19%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve 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. 19.0% 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 same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including DFW to HOU (67) and HOU to DFW (13), but none flew often enough under OH 5662 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DCA to ORF only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 281 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 5662
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OH 5662: 8.19% of its 281 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
- DCA to ORF, every carrier and departure
- ORF to DCA, 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.