Carrier route record

OHDCA→JAX

PSA Airlines · Washington to Jacksonville

Flights: 332
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 23%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 332 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on DCA to JAX runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 42 extra late arrivals.

On time

73.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights

Avg delay

76 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.61%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

72.9%

Every carrier on DCA to JAX, 1,463 flights

These figures cover 332 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on DCA to JAX

PSA flew 332 of the 1,463 flights on DCA to JAX, about 23% of it. Its 73.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 72.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 89.2% to American at 70.7%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DCA to JAX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	124	89.2%	52 min	1.61%	A
Envoy Airthin sample	4	75.0%	34 min	0.00%	B+
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	332	73.4%	76 min	3.61%	C−
American Airlines	1,003	70.7%	72 min	2.19%	C

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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am162 flights80.6%
8am–11am28 flights—
11am–2pm83 flights66.7%
2pm–5pm5 flights—
5pm–8pm13 flights—
8pm–5am41 flights60.0%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.0% on time, against 80.6% 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 162 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DCA to JAX through the year

Jul–Sep 202540 flights82.1%
Oct–Dec 2025126 flights73.4%
Jan–Mar 2026108 flights77.1%
Apr–Jun 202658 flights59.6%

Scale runs 50% to 90%. 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 73.4% on time across 332 flights.

PSA on DCA to JAX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 82.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 59.6%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 83 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 83.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.7%. 17 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 6,487 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
55%
Carrier
26%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
1%

55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,487 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,487 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 80.6% on time here.

Cancellations run at 3.61%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 66.8% on time across 332 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 332 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 3.61% 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. 320 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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