Carrier route record
OHPHL→CVG
PSA Airlines · Philadelphia to Cincinnati
- Flights
- 1,163
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 88%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on PHL to CVG carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.6% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,163 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on PHL to CVG from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,107 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.64%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.6%
Every carrier on PHL to CVG, 1,321 flights
These figures cover 1,163 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.6% 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 PHL to CVG
PSA flew 1,163 of the 1,321 flights on PHL to CVG, most of the route. Its 74.2% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 94.5% to PSA at 74.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 128 | 94.5% | 105 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 30 | 90.0% | 74 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 1,163 | 74.2% | 96 min | 4.64% | 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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am315 flights86.5%
- 11am–2pm177 flights79.2%
- 2pm–5pm153 flights66.4%
- 5pm–8pm421 flights66.0%
- 8pm–5am97 flights71.1%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 86.5% of the time, against 66.0% for the evening window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 421 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on PHL to CVG through the year
December is the weak month at 55.8% on time, against 87.5% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. August was the busiest month here, with 146 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 80.7% on time and Thursday the weakest at 66.5%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on PHL to CVG runs when it is late
PSA on PHL to CVG often beats the schedule: 380 of 1,107 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When PSA on PHL to CVG is late it tends to be very late: 150 of its 286 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 69 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early380 flights34.3%
- Within 15 min441 flights39.8%
- 15–29 min late57 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late79 flights7.1%
- 1–2 hours late81 flights7.3%
- 2+ hours late69 flights6.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,107 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
48 of 286 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 48 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on PHL to CVG
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 July 2026, 17 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2026 | 17 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 October 2025 | 14 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 March 2026 | 13 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 11 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 October 2025 | 7 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 27,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 27,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 27,457 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 86.5% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.64%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
13.6% 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 507 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 78.7% on time across 1,166 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,163 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking PSA on PHL to CVG
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.64% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 1,107 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHL to CVG, every carrier
- PSA on CVG to PHL, the return leg
- Republic Airways on PHL to CVG94.5%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Philadelphia International (PHL) delay statistics
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) 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.