Carrier route record
OHCAE→DFW
PSA Airlines · Columbia to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 321
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 33%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on CAE to DFW lands a B−, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 321 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's CAE to DFW record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 311 completed flights
Avg delay
114 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.12%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.4%
Every carrier on CAE to DFW, 983 flights
These figures cover 321 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% 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 CAE to DFW
PSA flew 321 of the 983 flights on CAE to DFW, about 33% of it. Its 82.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 92.3% to Envoy at 82.0%. 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 Airlinesthin sample | 26 | 92.3% | 20 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 321 | 82.3% | 114 min | 3.12% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 636 | 82.0% | 64 min | 2.36% | B |
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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 10 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am112 flights86.4%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm39 flights88.6%
- 2pm–5pm170 flights78.3%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 88.6% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 78.3%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 170 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CAE to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202560 flights89.7%
- Oct–Dec 2025111 flights82.7%
- Jan–Mar 202647 flights90.5%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights78.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights71.7%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 82.3% on time across 321 flights.
PSA on CAE to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 90.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 71.7%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 64 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 88.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 66.7%, a spread of 22 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CAE to DFW runs when it is late
PSA on CAE to DFW often beats the schedule: 169 of 311 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 55 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early169 flights54.3%
- Within 15 min87 flights28.0%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.3%
- 30–59 min late23 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late15 flights4.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 311 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 60 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CAE to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 January 2026, 21 hours 1 minute behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 January 2026 | 21 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 25 May 2026 | 6 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 February 2026 | 5 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 June 2026 | 4 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,294 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,294 reported delay minutes.
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,294 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.12%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
8.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 922 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 runs 80.9% on time across 320 flights, within about a point 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. 321 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 CAE to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.12% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 311 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.