Flight profile · PSA Airlines
OH5101
Albany (ALB) to Washington (DCA) · scheduled 6:00 AM – 6:49 AM
How OH5101 performs
670 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on ALB → DCA, OH5101 averaged about 4 operations a week (670 in 1,127 days, cancelled ones included).
OH5101 arrived on time 88.0% of the time, against 71.4% for all ALB → DCA flights, so this departure is 16.6 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against PSA Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 16.9 points better.
OH5101’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 5:15 AM earlier on, and around 6:00 AM more recently — a 45-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 670 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If OH5101 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How OH5101 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 99% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.
88.0% on time for this specific departure, against 71.1% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where OH5101 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH5101 | 88.0% | 4.33% | -15 min | 6.1% | 670 |
| PSA Airlines on ALB → DCA | 71.1% | 5.13% | -7 min | 12.1% | 3,370 |
| All ALB → DCA flights | 71.4% | 4.80% | -7 min | 11.6% | 3,791 |
OH5101 cancelled 29 of 670 operations (4.33%), close to the 4.80% for ALB → DCA.
6.1% of OH5101’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 11.6% across ALB → DCA, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why OH5101 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for OH5101 on ALB → DCA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves ALB late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DCA?
OH5101 pushes back an average of 14.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at DCA an average of 8.3 minutes late. The 5.8 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 17.9 minutes on the taxiways at ALB, 1.3 minutes longer than a typical ALB departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DCA, OH5101 spends 8.5 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at DCA spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 6,767 ALB departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 435,126 arrivals at DCA. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves ALB
OH5101 has one departure time, 6:00 AM, so this is what that hour at ALB is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 6,767 departures from ALB are scheduled in the 6 AM–7 AM hour over the period, against 38,119 across the whole day.
OH5101 is scheduled out of ALB at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from ALB in that hour arrive on time 88.3% of the time against 79.8% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.5 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from ALB, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes OH5101 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. OH5101 also served these 8 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| TVC→PHL Traverse City to Philadelphia | May 24, 2026 – July 26, 2026 | 10 | — |
| DFW→CHA Dallas–Fort Worth to Chattanooga | December 6–13, 2025 | 2 | — |
| DCA→BUF Washington to Buffalo | November 22–29, 2025 | 2 | — |
| BHM→ORD Birmingham to Chicago | June 5, 2025 | 1 | — |
| CMH→PHL Columbus to Philadelphia | May 6, 2025 – June 3, 2025 | 5 | — |
| DCA→BDL Washington to Hartford | November 5, 2023 – March 28, 2025 | 231 | 75.0% |
| BDL→DCA Hartford to Washington | November 5, 2023 – March 28, 2025 | 156 | 70.0% |
| DFW→HSV Dallas–Fort Worth to Huntsville | December 19, 2024 – January 6, 2025 | 17 | — |
The figures above describe only ALB → DCA, the route OH5101 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
19 min late
against a median of 15 min early
Percentiles over 670 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH5101 this flight | PSA Airlines | 88.0% | 15 min early | 670 |
| OH5433 | PSA Airlines | 70.9% | 6 min early | 850 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, OH5101 has the highest on-time rate. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 670 records of OH5101 operating ALB → DCA, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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