Carrier route record
OHDCA→BGR
PSA Airlines · Washington to Bangor
- 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 DCA to BGR carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 8.7% 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 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on DCA to BGR runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 122 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 782 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.71%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.4%
Every carrier on DCA to BGR, 1,122 flights
These figures cover 861 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.1% 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 DCA to BGR
PSA flew 861 of the 1,122 flights on DCA to BGR, most of the route. Its 65.1% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 67.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 77.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 162 | 77.2% | 63 min | 2.47% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 94 | 72.0% | 47 min | 1.06% | C |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 861 | 65.1% | 80 min | 8.71% | C− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 5 | 40.0% | 75 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 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am289 flights73.4%
- 11am–2pm64 flights60.0%
- 2pm–5pm234 flights62.8%
- 5pm–8pm4 flights—
- 8pm–5am270 flights58.7%
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 58.7% on time, against 73.4% for the 8am–11am 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 289 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DCA to BGR through the year
July is the worst month at 52.4% on time, 25 points below May, the best at 77.5%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. June was the busiest month here, with 100 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 74.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 59.3%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DCA to BGR runs when it is late
The 273 late arrivals split 70 under half an hour, 85 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 118 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early193 flights24.7%
- Within 15 min316 flights40.4%
- 15–29 min late70 flights9.0%
- 30–59 min late85 flights10.9%
- 1–2 hours late76 flights9.7%
- 2+ hours late42 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 782 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
39 of 278 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 34 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DCA to BGR
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 June 2026, 12 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2026 | 12 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 July 2026 | 9 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 9 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 June 2026 | 9 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 August 2026 | 7 hours 27 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 22,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 22,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 21,807 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 73.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 8.71%, 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
15.1% 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 66.8% 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 DCA to BGR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 8.71% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 782 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.