Carrier route record
OHDCA→IND
PSA Airlines · Washington to Indianapolis
- Flights
- 135
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- 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 IND sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 135 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 IND from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
10.37%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.1%
Every carrier on DCA to IND, 2,022 flights
These figures cover 135 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% 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 IND
PSA flew 135 of the 2,022 flights on DCA to IND, about 7% of it. Its 74.4% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.0% to PSA at 74.4%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 5 | 80.0% | 27 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 28 | 77.8% | 26 min | 3.57% | B− |
| Republic Airways | 1,854 | 77.3% | 63 min | 3.34% | B− |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 135 | 74.4% | 78 min | 10.37% | C− |
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Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 135 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split PSA's DCA to IND record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 74.4% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
PSA on DCA to IND through the year
- Jul–Sep 20254 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202517 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202611 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202644 flights73.8%
- Jul–Sep 202659 flights66.7%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 74.4% on time across 135 flights.
Split by quarter, PSA on DCA to IND logged 4 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 17 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 11 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 44 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 59 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 74.4% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DCA to IND runs when it is late
PSA on DCA to IND often beats the schedule: 40 of 121 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 31 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early40 flights33.1%
- Within 15 min50 flights41.3%
- 15–29 min late7 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late9 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights9.1%
- 2+ hours late4 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 121 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 33 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 4 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DCA to IND
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 August 2026, 4 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2026 | 4 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 October 2025 | 4 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 June 2026 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 August 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 June 2026 | 1 hour 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 2,409 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,409 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 2,409 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 844 of the 2,409 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 10.37%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in ten 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
12.4% 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 500 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 70.7% on time across 135 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 135 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 IND
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 10.37% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 121 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to IND, every carrier
- PSA on IND to DCA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on DCA to IND77.3%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
- Indianapolis International (IND) 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.