Carrier route record
OHHSV→DCA
PSA Airlines · Huntsville to Washington
- Flights
- 937
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 72%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on HSV to DCA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.1% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten 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 937 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on HSV to DCA runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 77 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 895 completed flights
Avg delay
110 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.06%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.3%
Every carrier on HSV to DCA, 1,310 flights
These figures cover 937 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 HSV to DCA
PSA flew 937 of the 1,310 flights on HSV to DCA, most of the route. Its 69.6% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 71.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 81.1% to PSA at 69.6%. 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 Airwaysthin sample | 54 | 81.1% | 30 min | 1.85% | B |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 319 | 74.6% | 58 min | 3.76% | C− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 937 | 69.6% | 110 min | 4.06% | 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 37 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am236 flights86.0%
- 8am–11am228 flights79.4%
- 11am–2pm278 flights62.5%
- 2pm–5pm23 flights—
- 5pm–8pm172 flights48.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 40% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 48.8% on time, against 86.0% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 278 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on HSV to DCA through the year
September is the best month on the calendar at 81.5% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 111 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 74.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 63.1%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on HSV to DCA runs when it is late
PSA on HSV to DCA often beats the schedule: 229 of 895 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 272 late arrivals split 65 under half an hour, 77 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 130 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early229 flights25.6%
- Within 15 min394 flights44.0%
- 15–29 min late65 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late77 flights8.6%
- 1–2 hours late74 flights8.3%
- 2+ hours late56 flights6.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 895 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
47 of 269 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 50 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 DCA.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on HSV to DCA
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 August 2026, 21 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across August, January, March, December and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2026 | 21 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 January 2026 | 19 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 March 2026 | 19 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 December 2025 | 18 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 February 2026 | 16 hours | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 30,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
- 12%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 29,979 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 30,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 4.06%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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 613 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 69.4% on time across 935 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. 937 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 HSV to DCA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.06% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 895 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.