Carrier route record
OHDFW→BHM
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Birmingham
- Flights
- 1,137
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 52%
- 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 BHM carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.5% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,137 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on DFW to BHM runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 61 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,093 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.52%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.0%
Every carrier on DFW to BHM, 2,202 flights
These figures cover 1,137 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% 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 BHM
PSA flew 1,137 of the 2,202 flights on DFW to BHM, most of the route. Its 71.5% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.4% to American at 46.2%. Two 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 740 | 80.4% | 65 min | 1.89% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 214 | 79.2% | 93 min | 3.27% | B− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 1,137 | 71.5% | 91 min | 3.52% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 111 | 46.2% | 102 min | 4.50% | F− |
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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am113 flights82.6%
- 8am–11am112 flights86.4%
- 11am–2pm323 flights73.4%
- 2pm–5pm314 flights65.0%
- 5pm–8pm186 flights63.4%
- 8pm–5am89 flights72.6%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.4% on time, against 86.4% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 323 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to BHM through the year
June is the worst month at 50.7% on time, 34 points below February, the best at 84.5%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 118 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 78.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 65.4%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 28,000 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.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
55% 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 28,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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. The split is drawn from 28,242 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 86.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.52%, 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. 12.6% 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 597 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.9% on time across 1,137 flights, 5 points above 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 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,137 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking PSA on DFW to BHM
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.52% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,093 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to BHM, every carrier
- PSA on BHM to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to BHM80.4%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to BHM79.2%
- American Airlines on DFW to BHM46.2%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.