Carrier route record

OHJAX→DCA

PSA Airlines · Jacksonville to Washington

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 JAX 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, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 2.2 hours 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 JAX to DCA runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 86 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights

Avg delay

134 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.51%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

73.1%

Every carrier on JAX to DCA, 1,437 flights

These figures cover 355 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.7% 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 JAX to DCA

PSA flew 355 of the 1,437 flights on JAX to DCA, about 25% of it. Its 68.7% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 78.7% to PSA at 68.7%. 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 JAX to DCA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	154	78.7%	133 min	2.60%	B
American Airlines	928	73.8%	69 min	2.16%	C
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	355	68.7%	134 min	4.51%	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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am97 flights82.2%
8am–11am8 flights—
11am–2pm156 flights66.2%
2pm–5pm81 flights57.7%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am13 flights—

Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 82.2% of the time, against 57.7% for the afternoon window. That is 25 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 156 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on JAX to DCA through the year

Jul–Sep 20251 flights—
Oct–Dec 2025126 flights59.3%
Jan–Mar 2026109 flights70.9%
Apr–Jun 202657 flights74.5%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.7%

Scale runs 50% 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 68.7% on time across 355 flights.

PSA on JAX to DCA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 59.3%, a swing of 21 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 77.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.1%, a spread of 15 points.

Arrival by arrival

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

PSA on JAX to DCA often beats the schedule: 89 of 339 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 106 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 43 an hour or more.

15+ min early89 flights26.3%
Within 15 min144 flights42.5%
15–29 min late28 flights8.3%
30–59 min late35 flights10.3%
1–2 hours late17 flights5.0%
2+ hours late26 flights7.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 339 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 84 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 10 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 32 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 JAX to DCA

The latest arrival of the period was on 23 May 2026, 28 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of PSA on JAX to DCA in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
23 May 2026	28 hours 51 minutes	Carrier
16 March 2026	25 hours 51 minutes	Carrier
22 February 2026	21 hours 15 minutes	Extreme weather
23 November 2025	19 hours 53 minutes	Carrier
15 March 2026	7 hours 47 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 43% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
43%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
12%
Security
0%

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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 14,180 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,136 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 4.51%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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

12.7% 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 68.3% 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 JAX to DCA

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.51% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.2 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. 339 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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