Carrier route record

OHDFW→HOU

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston

Flights: 607
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 30%
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 HOU sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 607 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,061 at 81.1% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on DFW to HOU runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 62 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 576 completed flights

Avg delay

96 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.11%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

76.9%

Every carrier on DFW to HOU, 2,048 flights

These figures cover 607 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.7% 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 HOU

PSA flew 607 of the 2,048 flights on DFW to HOU, about 30% of it. Its 71.4% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.1% to PSA at 71.4%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 81.1% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 73.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 380 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to HOU
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,061	81.1%	53 min	2.83%	B
SkyWest Airlines	380	73.7%	62 min	5.00%	C−
PSA Airlines (this page)	607	71.4%	96 min	5.11%	C−

SkyWest Airlines cancels 5.0% 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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 23 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am195 flights81.0%
11am–2pm5 flights—
2pm–5pm153 flights70.3%
5pm–8pm132 flights57.6%
8pm–5am122 flights72.6%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 57.6% on time, against 81.0% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 195 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to HOU through the year

Oct–Dec 2025200 flights71.1%
Jan–Mar 2026284 flights73.6%
Apr–Jun 2026123 flights66.9%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. 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 71.4% on time across 607 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on DFW to HOU held fairly steady: 71.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 73.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 66.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 78.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 65.8%. 13 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 54% of the 16,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
54%
Carrier
25%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
5%

54% 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 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 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 15,801 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 81.0% on time here.

Cancellations run at 5.11%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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. 13.7% 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 247 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 77.2% on time across 607 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 607 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 HOU

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.11% 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. 576 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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