Carrier route record
OHPHL→PVD
PSA Airlines · Philadelphia to Providence
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 47%
- 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 PVD sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on PHL to PVD runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 70 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
11.81%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.7%
Every carrier on PHL to PVD, 769 flights
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.7% 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 PHL to PVD
PSA flew 364 of the 769 flights on PHL to PVD, about 47% of it. Its 70.3% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 80.3% to PSA at 70.3%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 369 | 80.3% | 58 min | 2.44% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 36 | 77.8% | 83 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 364 | 70.3% | 89 min | 11.81% | 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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am99 flights79.8%
- 11am–2pm57 flights65.4%
- 2pm–5pm60 flights67.3%
- 5pm–8pm91 flights60.8%
- 8pm–5am57 flights77.8%
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.8% on time, against 79.8% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 99 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on PHL to PVD through the year
- Oct–Dec 202535 flights72.7%
- Jan–Mar 202637 flights84.4%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights77.8%
- Jul–Sep 2026221 flights65.1%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 70.3% on time across 364 flights.
PSA on PHL to PVD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 84.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 65.1%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 91 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, Saturday is the strongest day at 77.1% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 66.0%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on PHL to PVD runs when it is late
PSA on PHL to PVD often beats the schedule: 91 of 320 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 95 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 47 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early91 flights28.4%
- Within 15 min134 flights41.9%
- 15–29 min late23 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late25 flights7.8%
- 1–2 hours late33 flights10.3%
- 2+ hours late14 flights4.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 320 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 93 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 11 made it up before arrival. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on PHL to PVD
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 July 2026, 19 hours 40 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2026 | 19 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 August 2026 | 8 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 July 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 5 August 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 4 hours 30 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 8,494 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,494 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 8,494 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 79.8% on time here.
Cancellations run at 11.81%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in eight 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
14.7% 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.
At 237 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 runs 67.5% on time across 363 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. 364 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 PVD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 11.81% 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. 320 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.