Carrier route record
OHIND→DCA
PSA Airlines · Indianapolis to Washington
- 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 IND to DCA sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 2.7 hours behind schedule. That rests on 135 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on IND to DCA runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 66 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 116 completed flights
Avg delay
160 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
12.59%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.1%
Every carrier on IND to DCA, 2,021 flights
These figures cover 135 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.1% 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 IND to DCA
PSA flew 135 of the 2,021 flights on IND to DCA, about 7% of it. Its 70.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 100.0% to PSA 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 5 | 100.0% | — | 20.00% | A− |
| Republic Airways | 1,853 | 74.3% | 57 min | 3.72% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 28 | 74.1% | 46 min | 3.57% | C− |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 135 | 70.7% | 160 min | 12.59% | 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 IND to DCA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 70.7% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
PSA on IND to DCA through the year
- Jul–Sep 20254 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202517 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202611 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202644 flights75.6%
- Jul–Sep 202659 flights61.7%
Scale runs 55% 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 70.7% on time across 135 flights.
Split by quarter, PSA on IND to DCA 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 70.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on IND to DCA runs when it is late
PSA on IND to DCA often beats the schedule: 38 of 116 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When PSA on IND to DCA is late it tends to be very late: 21 of its 34 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 11 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early38 flights32.8%
- Within 15 min44 flights37.9%
- 15–29 min late9 flights7.8%
- 30–59 min late4 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights8.6%
- 2+ hours late11 flights9.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 116 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 30 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 7 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 IND to DCA
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 July 2026, 24 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across July, October and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2026 | 24 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 July 2026 | 18 hours 40 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 18 October 2025 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 August 2026 | 4 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 August 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,432 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 29%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,432 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 5,432 reported delay minutes.
33% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,775 minutes out of 5,432, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 12.59%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in eight 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
18.1% 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 74.4% on time across 135 flights, 4 points above 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 IND to DCA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 12.59% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.7 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 116 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- IND to DCA, every carrier
- PSA on DCA to IND, the return leg
- Republic Airways on IND to DCA74.3%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Indianapolis International (IND) delay statistics
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) 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.