Carrier route record

OHJAX→DCA

PSA Airlines · Jacksonville to Washington

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 JAX to DCA draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 2.2 hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 332 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on JAX to DCA runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 108 extra late arrivals.

On time

66.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 319 completed flights

Avg delay

129 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.61%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

71.7%

Every carrier on JAX to DCA, 1,464 flights

These figures cover 332 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.2% 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 JAX to DCA

PSA flew 332 of the 1,464 flights on JAX to DCA, about 23% of it. Its 66.8% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 71.7%. 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 66.8%. 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 JAX to DCA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	4	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
Republic Airwaysthin sample	124	84.3%	108 min	2.42%	B
American Airlines	1,004	71.6%	72 min	2.19%	C
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	332	66.8%	129 min	3.61%	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 24 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–8am40 flights81.6%
8am–11am8 flights—
11am–2pm188 flights67.4%
2pm–5pm83 flights57.5%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am13 flights—

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

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 81.6% of the time, against 57.5% for the afternoon window. That is 24 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 188 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on JAX to DCA through the year

Jul–Sep 202540 flights68.4%
Oct–Dec 2025126 flights59.3%
Jan–Mar 2026109 flights70.9%
Apr–Jun 202657 flights74.5%

Scale runs 50% 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 66.8% on time across 332 flights.

PSA on JAX to DCA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 74.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 59.3%, a swing of 15 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 75.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 57.1%. 18 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

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 14,000 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
Extreme weather
14%
National Airspace System
13%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 13,692 reported delay minutes.

34% 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 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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.

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. 12.2% 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 73.4% on time across 332 flights, 7 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 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 JAX to DCA

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.61% 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. 319 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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