Carrier route record

OHCVG→PHL

PSA Airlines · Cincinnati to Philadelphia

Flights: 1,166
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 88%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on CVG to PHL carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.1% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,166 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on CVG to PHL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,116 completed flights

Avg delay

106 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.12%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

79.5%

Every carrier on CVG to PHL, 1,324 flights

These figures cover 1,166 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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 CVG to PHL

PSA flew 1,166 of the 1,324 flights on CVG to PHL, most of the route. Its 78.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 91.3% to American at 60.0%. Two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on CVG to PHL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	128	91.3%	65 min	0.78%	A+
PSA Airlines (this page)	1,166	78.7%	106 min	4.12%	B−
American Airlinesthin sample	30	60.0%	158 min	0.00%	D+

Flight by flight

PSA flight numbers on CVG to PHL

OH 557807:5384.2% · 337 flights

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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–8am239 flights86.9%
8am–11am324 flights84.2%
11am–2pm306 flights75.0%
2pm–5pm152 flights77.6%
5pm–8pm145 flights60.9%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.9% on time, against 86.9% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 324 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CVG to PHL through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.January best, December worst

December is the weak month at 67.7% on time, against 88.6% in January. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 147 flights.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 82.8% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 74.4%, a spread of 8 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late PSA on CVG to PHL runs when it is late

PSA on CVG to PHL often beats the schedule: 446 of 1,116 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When PSA on CVG to PHL is late it tends to be very late: 122 of its 238 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 55 were two hours or more.

15+ min early446 flights40.0%
Within 15 min432 flights38.7%
15–29 min late50 flights4.5%
30–59 min late66 flights5.9%
1–2 hours late67 flights6.0%
2+ hours late55 flights4.9%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 1,116 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

29 of 231 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 36 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for PSA on CVG to PHL

The latest arrival of the period was on 17 March 2026, 16 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across March, July and August, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of PSA on CVG to PHL in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
17 March 2026	16 hours 48 minutes	Extreme weather
28 July 2026	15 hours 31 minutes	Carrier
22 July 2026	15 hours 29 minutes	Carrier
10 August 2026	14 hours 58 minutes	Extreme weather
21 March 2026	8 hours 4 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

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 25,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
38%
Carrier
38%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
9%

38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 25,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 25,174 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,443 of the 25,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 4.12%, against 1.89% 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 stage length

What a delay here costs

10.9% 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 507 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.2% on time across 1,163 flights, 5 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 5 points of difference.

The sample behind these figures is 1,166 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.

What to do with this

Booking PSA on CVG to PHL

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.12% 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. 1,116 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures