Carrier route record
OHBTV→DCA
PSA Airlines · Burlington to Washington
- Flights
- 831
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 74%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on BTV to DCA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.4% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, a little over half of flights arrive on time, worth a D− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 831 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on BTV to DCA runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 146 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 785 completed flights
Avg delay
121 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.42%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
64.4%
Every carrier on BTV to DCA, 1,118 flights
These figures cover 831 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.2% 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 BTV to DCA
PSA flew 831 of the 1,118 flights on BTV to DCA, most of the route. Its 62.7% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 64.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 69.8% to PSA at 62.7%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 174 | 69.8% | 79 min | 1.72% | C |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 109 | 69.0% | 91 min | 7.34% | C− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 4 | 66.7% | 60 min | 25.00% | C− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 831 | 62.7% | 121 min | 5.42% | D− |
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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 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am232 flights80.8%
- 8am–11am6 flights—
- 11am–2pm346 flights57.2%
- 2pm–5pm26 flights—
- 5pm–8pm221 flights51.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 51.7% on time, against 80.8% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 346 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on BTV to DCA through the year
February is the weak month at 34.4% on time, against 83.9% in September. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 107 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 73.3% on time and Friday the weakest at 51.4%, a spread of 22 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on BTV to DCA runs when it is late
PSA on BTV to DCA often beats the schedule: 202 of 785 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 293 late arrivals split 80 under half an hour, 78 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 135 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early202 flights25.7%
- Within 15 min290 flights36.9%
- 15–29 min late80 flights10.2%
- 30–59 min late78 flights9.9%
- 1–2 hours late63 flights8.0%
- 2+ hours late72 flights9.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 785 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
32 of 256 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 69 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 BTV to DCA
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 November 2025, 29 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 November 2025 | 29 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 April 2026 | 26 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 22 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 18 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 October 2025 | 18 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 35,000 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 35,339 reported delay minutes.
41% 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 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 5.42%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
17.2% 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.
At 437 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 65.5% on time across 832 flights, within 3 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. 831 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 BTV to DCA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.42% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 785 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BTV to DCA, every carrier
- PSA on DCA to BTV, the return leg
- American Airlines on BTV to DCA69.8%
- Republic Airways on BTV to DCA69.0%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.