Carrier route record
OHIND→PHL
PSA Airlines · Indianapolis to Philadelphia
- Flights
- 487
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 31%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on IND to PHL 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 about 2.2 hours behind schedule. That rests on 487 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 574 at 90.0% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on IND to PHL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 444 completed flights
Avg delay
132 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.83%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on IND to PHL, 1,596 flights
These figures cover 487 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% 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 PHL
PSA flew 487 of the 1,596 flights on IND to PHL, about 31% of it. Its 74.8% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 90.0% to PSA at 74.8%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 90.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 76.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 535 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 574 | 90.0% | 59 min | 1.92% | A |
| American Airlines | 535 | 76.4% | 106 min | 2.62% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 487 | 74.8% | 132 min | 8.83% | C− |
The spread between Republic and American is 14 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 14 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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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 487 flights.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm293 flights75.3%
- 2pm–5pm127 flights72.2%
- 5pm–8pm66 flights77.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 77.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 5 points.
Across the year
PSA on IND to PHL through the year
- Jul–Sep 20254 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202553 flights65.4%
- Jan–Mar 202698 flights80.2%
- Apr–Jun 2026160 flights77.8%
- Jul–Sep 2026172 flights71.3%
Scale runs 55% 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 74.8% on time across 487 flights.
PSA on IND to PHL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 65.4%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 122 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 84.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.1%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on IND to PHL runs when it is late
PSA on IND to PHL often beats the schedule: 219 of 444 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 112 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 37 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 45 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early219 flights49.3%
- Within 15 min113 flights25.5%
- 15–29 min late30 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late37 flights8.3%
- 1–2 hours late22 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late23 flights5.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 444 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 119 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on IND to PHL
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 24 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2025 | 24 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 July 2026 | 23 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 8 July 2026 | 20 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 July 2026 | 19 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 December 2025 | 19 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 11%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 to one. The split is drawn from 14,824 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 8.83%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve 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
10.1% 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 588 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 77.5% on time across 489 flights, within 3 points 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. 487 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 PHL
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 8.83% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.2 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 444 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- IND to PHL, every carrier
- PSA on PHL to IND, the return leg
- Republic Airways on IND to PHL90.0%
- American Airlines on IND to PHL76.4%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Indianapolis International (IND) delay statistics
- Philadelphia International (PHL) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.