Carrier route record

OHDFW→AUS

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Austin

Flights: 108
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 2%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on DFW to AUS sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 108 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 688 at 78.5% on time.

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

On time

75.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 100 completed flights

Avg delay

80 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

7.41%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

67.7%

Every carrier on DFW to AUS, 4,741 flights

These figures cover 108 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.0% 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 DFW to AUS

PSA flew 108 of the 4,741 flights on DFW to AUS, about 2% of it. Its 75.0% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 78.5% to American at 64.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 78.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 64.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,591 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to AUS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	688	78.5%	49 min	3.92%	B−
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	108	75.0%	80 min	7.41%	B−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	354	74.8%	68 min	2.26%	C
American Airlines	3,591	64.7%	74 min	3.54%	D−

Envoy Air 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 108 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split PSA's DFW to AUS record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 75.0% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to AUS through the year

Jul–Sep 20259 flights—
Oct–Dec 202515 flights—
Jan–Mar 202665 flights82.8%
Apr–Jun 202619 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 90%. 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 75.0% on time across 108 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on DFW to AUS logged 9 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 15 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 65 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 19 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 75.0% annual figure is the one to use.

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 2,011 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
36%
Carrier
31%
Extreme weather
18%
National Airspace System
16%

Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 2.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,011 reported delay minutes.

36% 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 2,011 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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 7.41%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twelve 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. 13.0% 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.

At 190 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 66.7% on time across 108 flights, 8 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 8 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 108 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 DFW to AUS

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 7.41% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 100 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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