Carrier route record
OHDFW→CID
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Cedar Rapids
- Flights
- 151
- 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 DFW to CID lands a B, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 151 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 536 at 84.2% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to CID from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 146 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.65%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.1%
Every carrier on DFW to CID, 1,174 flights
These figures cover 151 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 CID
PSA flew 151 of the 1,174 flights on DFW to CID, about 13% of it. Its 76.0% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.2% to American at 62.1%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 84.2% of the time; American Airlines manages 62.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 487 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 536 | 84.2% | 64 min | 1.87% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 151 | 76.0% | 79 min | 2.65% | B |
| American Airlines | 487 | 62.1% | 79 min | 3.90% | D− |
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 151 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am37 flights82.9%
- 11am–2pm80 flights73.8%
- 2pm–5pm3 flights—
- 5pm–8pm1 flights—
- 8pm–5am30 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 73.8% on time against 82.9% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 80 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to CID through the year
- Jul–Sep 202588 flights74.4%
- Oct–Dec 202560 flights77.2%
- Jan–Mar 20262 flights—
- Apr–Jun 20261 flights—
Scale runs 65% 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 76.0% on time across 151 flights.
Split by quarter, PSA on DFW to CID logged 88 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 60 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 2 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 1 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 76.0% 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 61% of the 2,772 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.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
61% 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 2,772 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 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 2,772 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 82.9% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.65%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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. 11.6% 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 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 74.3% on time across 150 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. 151 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 CID
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 151 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 76.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 146 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to CID, every carrier
- PSA on CID to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to CID84.2%
- American Airlines on DFW to CID62.1%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.