Carrier route record
OHDFW→CAE
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Columbia
- Flights
- 320
- 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 DFW to CAE lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to CAE from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 309 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.12%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on DFW to CAE, 983 flights
These figures cover 320 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on DFW to CAE
PSA flew 320 of the 983 flights on DFW to CAE, about 33% of it. Its 80.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.9% to American at 33.3%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 636 | 82.9% | 52 min | 2.20% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 320 | 80.9% | 67 min | 3.12% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 27 | 33.3% | 110 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am163 flights83.3%
- 11am–2pm47 flights89.4%
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm57 flights76.4%
- 8pm–5am52 flights72.0%
Scale runs 65% 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 89.4% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 72.0%. 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 163 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to CAE through the year
- Jul–Sep 202560 flights76.3%
- Oct–Dec 2025110 flights78.5%
- Jan–Mar 202647 flights95.3%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights85.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights76.7%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 80.9% on time across 320 flights.
PSA on DFW to CAE did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 95.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 76.3%, 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 88.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 66.7%, a spread of 22 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DFW to CAE runs when it is late
PSA on DFW to CAE often beats the schedule: 100 of 309 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 59 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early100 flights32.4%
- Within 15 min150 flights48.5%
- 15–29 min late20 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.2%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 309 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DFW to CAE
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 June 2026, 4 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 September 2025 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 September 2025 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 June 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 December 2025 | 2 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 3,964 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,964 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 32 to one. The split is drawn from 3,964 reported delay minutes.
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
7.4% 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 about an hour, 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 82.3% on time across 321 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. 320 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 CAE
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.12% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 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. 309 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.