Carrier route record
OHPVD→PHL
PSA Airlines · Providence to Philadelphia
- Flights
- 363
- 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 PVD to PHL draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 2.1 hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on PVD to PHL runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 98 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 323 completed flights
Avg delay
126 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
11.02%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.4%
Every carrier on PVD to PHL, 770 flights
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% 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 PVD to PHL
PSA flew 363 of the 770 flights on PVD to PHL, about 47% of it. Its 67.5% on time is 11 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 87.8% to PSA at 67.5%. 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 | 370 | 87.8% | 210 min | 2.43% | A |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 37 | 81.1% | 124 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 363 | 67.5% | 126 min | 11.02% | 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 32 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am74 flights84.4%
- 8am–11am98 flights76.1%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm90 flights52.4%
- 5pm–8pm99 flights59.8%
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 84.4% of the time, against 52.4% for the afternoon window. That is 32 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 99 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on PVD to PHL through the year
- Oct–Dec 202535 flights66.7%
- Jan–Mar 202637 flights80.6%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights74.6%
- Jul–Sep 2026220 flights63.3%
Scale runs 55% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 67.5% on time across 363 flights.
PSA on PVD to PHL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 63.3%, a swing of 17 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 76.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 50.9%, a spread of 25 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on PVD to PHL runs when it is late
PSA on PVD to PHL often beats the schedule: 89 of 323 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 105 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 48 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early89 flights27.6%
- Within 15 min129 flights39.9%
- 15–29 min late31 flights9.6%
- 30–59 min late26 flights8.0%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights9.0%
- 2+ hours late19 flights5.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 323 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 104 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 11 made it up before arrival. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on PVD to PHL
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 August 2026, 28 hours 35 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2026 | 28 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 July 2026 | 25 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 August 2026 | 20 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 July 2026 | 19 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 July 2026 | 7 hours 5 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 40%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 13,275 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,338 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 11.02%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in nine 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
14.9% 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 70.3% on time across 364 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. 363 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 PVD to PHL
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 11.02% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 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. 323 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.