Carrier route record

OHCID→DFW

PSA Airlines · Cedar Rapids to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 150
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on CID to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 2.1 hours behind schedule. That rests on 150 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 537 at 84.4% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on CID to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

74.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 144 completed flights

Avg delay

125 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.33%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.5%

Every carrier on CID to DFW, 1,174 flights

These figures cover 150 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on CID to DFW

PSA flew 150 of the 1,174 flights on CID to DFW, about 13% of it. Its 74.3% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.4% to American at 70.7%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 84.4% of the time; American Airlines manages 70.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 487 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on CID to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	537	84.4%	86 min	1.86%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	150	74.3%	125 min	3.33%	C−
American Airlines	487	70.7%	175 min	3.90%	C−

American Airlines cancels 3.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

Departure window

When PSA runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 150 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split PSA's CID to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 74.3% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

PSA on CID to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202588 flights69.0%
Oct–Dec 202560 flights81.0%
Jan–Mar 20262 flights—

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 74.3% on time across 150 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on CID to DFW logged 88 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 60 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 2 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 74.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 69% of the 4,632 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
69%
Extreme weather
13%
National Airspace System
9%
Carrier
8%
Security
1%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,632 reported delay minutes.

69% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,632 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.

Cancellations run at 3.33%, against 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 13.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 685 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg runs 76.0% on time across 151 flights, within 2 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. 150 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 CID to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.33% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 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. 144 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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