Carrier route record
OHDCA→CMH
PSA Airlines · Washington to Columbus
- Flights
- 455
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- 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 CMH sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 455 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on DCA to CMH from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
73.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 415 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.79%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.6%
Every carrier on DCA to CMH, 2,051 flights
These figures cover 455 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.5% 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 CMH
PSA flew 455 of the 2,051 flights on DCA to CMH, about 22% of it. Its 73.7% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.1% to PSA at 73.7%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 989 | 80.1% | 65 min | 2.63% | B |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 349 | 77.1% | 54 min | 0.57% | B+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 258 | 75.3% | 103 min | 4.26% | B− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 455 | 73.7% | 82 min | 8.79% | 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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am79 flights90.0%
- 8am–11am83 flights82.7%
- 11am–2pm125 flights75.8%
- 2pm–5pm83 flights57.1%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am85 flights61.2%
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.0% of the time, against 57.1% for the afternoon window. That is 33 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 125 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DCA to CMH through the year
- Jul–Sep 202551 flights88.2%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights66.7%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights67.1%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights78.9%
- Jul–Sep 2026155 flights73.3%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 73.7% on time across 455 flights.
PSA on DCA to CMH did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 88.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 66.7%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 91 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 81.8% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 60.9%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DCA to CMH runs when it is late
PSA on DCA to CMH often beats the schedule: 132 of 415 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When PSA on DCA to CMH is late it tends to be very late: 56 of its 109 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 22 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early132 flights31.8%
- Within 15 min174 flights41.9%
- 15–29 min late24 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late29 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights8.2%
- 2+ hours late22 flights5.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 415 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
24 of 124 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DCA to CMH
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 August 2026, 7 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2026 | 7 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 August 2026 | 5 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 14 December 2025 | 4 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 August 2026 | 3 hours 52 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 8,913 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,913 reported delay minutes.
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,913 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 8.79%, 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
13.5% 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 323 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 70.6% on time across 453 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 455 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 CMH
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 8.79% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 415 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to CMH, every carrier
- PSA on CMH to DCA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on DCA to CMH80.1%
- Southwest Airlines on DCA to CMH77.1%
- Envoy Air on DCA to CMH75.3%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) 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.