Carrier route record
OHDCA→BTV
PSA Airlines · Washington to Burlington
- Flights
- 832
- 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 DCA to BTV carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 6.1% 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 832 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on DCA to BTV runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 118 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 779 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.13%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
66.8%
Every carrier on DCA to BTV, 1,119 flights
These figures cover 832 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% 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 DCA to BTV
PSA flew 832 of the 1,119 flights on DCA to BTV, most of the route. Its 65.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 66.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 73.3% to PSA at 65.5%. 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 | 109 | 73.3% | 73 min | 6.42% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 174 | 69.2% | 57 min | 1.15% | C |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 4 | 66.7% | 76 min | 25.00% | C− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 832 | 65.5% | 86 min | 6.13% | C− |
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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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am348 flights71.5%
- 11am–2pm30 flights83.3%
- 2pm–5pm222 flights59.4%
- 5pm–8pm5 flights—
- 8pm–5am227 flights57.9%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 57.9% on time, against 83.3% for the 11am–2pm 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 348 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DCA to BTV through the year
July is the worst month at 41.7% on time, 43 points below September, the best at 85.0%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 107 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 79.6% on time and Friday the weakest at 52.9%, a spread of 27 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DCA to BTV runs when it is late
PSA on DCA to BTV often beats the schedule: 198 of 779 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 269 late arrivals split 68 under half an hour, 85 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 116 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early198 flights25.4%
- Within 15 min312 flights40.1%
- 15–29 min late68 flights8.7%
- 30–59 min late85 flights10.9%
- 1–2 hours late72 flights9.2%
- 2+ hours late44 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 779 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 255 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 24 made it up before arrival. 38 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DCA to BTV
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 December 2025, 16 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 December 2025 | 16 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 December 2025 | 14 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 12 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 September 2025 | 11 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 August 2026 | 9 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 23,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 2%Security
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 23,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 23,141 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 8,095 of the 23,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 6.13%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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
14.9% 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.
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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 62.7% on time across 831 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. 832 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 BTV
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.13% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 779 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to BTV, every carrier
- PSA on BTV to DCA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on DCA to BTV73.3%
- American Airlines on DCA to BTV69.2%
- 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.