Carrier route record

OHPHL→CMH

PSA Airlines · Philadelphia to Columbus

Flights: 347
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 25%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on PHL to CMH lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 347 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 546 at 84.5% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on PHL to CMH from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

81.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 332 completed flights

Avg delay

73 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.03%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.2%

Every carrier on PHL to CMH, 1,382 flights

These figures cover 347 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on PHL to CMH

PSA flew 347 of the 1,382 flights on PHL to CMH, about 25% of it. Its 81.3% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 84.5% to American at 71.9%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 84.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 71.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 489 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on PHL to CMH
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways	546	84.5%	77 min	2.93%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	347	81.3%	73 min	4.03%	B−
American Airlines	489	71.9%	82 min	3.07%	C−

American Airlines cancels 3.1% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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 15 points, against 13 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am163 flights88.7%
11am–2pm44 flights75.0%
2pm–5pm126 flights73.9%
5pm–8pm13 flights—
8pm–5am1 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 88.7% of the time, against 73.9% for the afternoon window. That is 15 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 163 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on PHL to CMH through the year

Jul–Sep 202566 flights86.2%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights75.3%
Jan–Mar 202677 flights73.6%
Apr–Jun 2026117 flights87.7%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. 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 81.3% on time across 347 flights.

PSA on PHL to CMH did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 87.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.6%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 87 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, Friday is the strongest day at 85.2% on time and Thursday the weakest at 76.9%. 8 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 4,531 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
43%
Carrier
33%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
10%

43% 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 4,531 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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. The split is drawn from 4,531 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 88.7% on time here.

Cancellations run at 4.03%, against 1.81% 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

7.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 407 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 77.9% on time across 346 flights, 3 points below 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 3 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 347 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 PHL to CMH

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.03% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 332 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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