Carrier route record

OHDCA→JAX

PSA Airlines · Washington to Jacksonville

Flights: 355
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 25%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on DCA to JAX sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 355 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on DCA to JAX runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 90 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 331 completed flights

Avg delay

80 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.76%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

73.0%

Every carrier on DCA to JAX, 1,435 flights

These figures cover 355 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.5% 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 JAX

PSA flew 355 of the 1,435 flights on DCA to JAX, about 25% of it. Its 68.3% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 85.2% to PSA at 68.3%. One 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 DCA to JAX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	154	85.2%	53 min	1.95%	A
American Airlines	926	72.7%	71 min	2.16%	C
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	355	68.3%	80 min	6.76%	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 31 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am157 flights80.0%
8am–11am1 flights—
11am–2pm81 flights68.4%
2pm–5pm5 flights—
5pm–8pm17 flights—
8pm–5am94 flights48.7%

Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 48.7% on time, against 80.0% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 157 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DCA to JAX through the year

Jul–Sep 20251 flights—
Oct–Dec 2025126 flights73.4%
Jan–Mar 2026108 flights77.1%
Apr–Jun 202658 flights59.6%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights44.9%

Scale runs 35% to 85%. 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 68.3% on time across 355 flights.

PSA on DCA to JAX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 44.9%, a swing of 32 points on roughly 89 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, Friday is the strongest day at 76.1% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 60.4%, a spread of 16 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late PSA on DCA to JAX runs when it is late

PSA on DCA to JAX often beats the schedule: 87 of 331 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 105 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 31 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 48 an hour or more.

15+ min early87 flights26.3%
Within 15 min139 flights42.0%
15–29 min late26 flights7.9%
30–59 min late31 flights9.4%
1–2 hours late24 flights7.3%
2+ hours late24 flights7.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 331 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 98 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 11 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 18 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at JAX.

The worst days

Worst days for PSA on DCA to JAX

The latest arrival of the period was on 17 August 2026, 7 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of PSA on DCA to JAX in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
17 August 2026	7 hours 12 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
9 July 2026	4 hours 55 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
17 March 2026	4 hours 37 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
25 November 2025	4 hours 6 minutes	Carrier
7 December 2025	4 hours 4 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 8,424 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
58%
Carrier
24%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
2%

58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,424 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 24 to one. The split is drawn from 8,424 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 80.0% on time here.

Cancellations run at 6.76%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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

14.5% 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.

The 634 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 68.7% on time across 355 flights, within half a point 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. 355 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 JAX

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.76% 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. 331 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.

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