Carrier route record
OHBGR→DCA
PSA Airlines · Bangor to Washington
- Flights
- 861
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 77%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on BGR to DCA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 7.8% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about two flights in three arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 861 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on BGR to DCA runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 105 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 791 completed flights
Avg delay
132 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.78%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.3%
Every carrier on BGR to DCA, 1,123 flights
These figures cover 861 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on BGR to DCA
PSA flew 861 of the 1,123 flights on BGR to DCA, most of the route. Its 66.8% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 82.8% to Envoy at 40.0%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 95 | 82.8% | 58 min | 2.11% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 162 | 74.8% | 60 min | 1.85% | C |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 861 | 66.8% | 132 min | 7.78% | C− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 5 | 40.0% | 72 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am279 flights78.2%
- 8am–11am42 flights81.6%
- 11am–2pm247 flights60.9%
- 2pm–5pm130 flights55.6%
- 5pm–8pm163 flights61.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 81.6% of the time, against 55.6% for the afternoon window. That is 26 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 279 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on BGR to DCA through the year
January is the weak month at 58.6% on time, against 76.2% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. June was the busiest month here, with 100 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 71.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.6%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on BGR to DCA runs when it is late
PSA on BGR to DCA often beats the schedule: 266 of 791 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 263 late arrivals split 69 under half an hour, 69 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 125 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early266 flights33.6%
- Within 15 min262 flights33.1%
- 15–29 min late69 flights8.7%
- 30–59 min late69 flights8.7%
- 1–2 hours late57 flights7.2%
- 2+ hours late68 flights8.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 791 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
39 of 243 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 59 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 PSA on BGR to DCA
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 June 2026, 21 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across June, July, February and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2026 | 21 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 21 hours 22 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 14 July 2026 | 20 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 19 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 18 hours 42 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 35,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 35,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 34,813 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 81.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 7.78%, against 1.89% 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
15.8% 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 590 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 65.1% on time across 861 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 861 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 PSA on BGR to DCA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 7.78% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.2 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 791 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.