Carrier route record
OHDFW→HRL
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Harlingen
- Flights
- 211
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on DFW to HRL lands a B−, 3 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 2.2 hours on average. That rests on 211 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to HRL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 198 completed flights
Avg delay
131 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.16%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
85.4%
Every carrier on DFW to HRL, 1,480 flights
These figures cover 211 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on DFW to HRL
PSA flew 211 of the 1,480 flights on DFW to HRL, about 14% of it. Its 80.3% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 85.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.2% to PSA at 80.3%.
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 | 1,269 | 86.2% | 57 min | 2.21% | A |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 211 | 80.3% | 131 min | 6.16% | B− |
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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 211 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am25 flights—
- 11am–2pm67 flights86.2%
- 2pm–5pm14 flights—
- 5pm–8pm14 flights—
- 8pm–5am91 flights76.7%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 86.2% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 76.7%. 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 91 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to HRL through the year
- Jul–Sep 202558 flights82.5%
- Oct–Dec 202599 flights85.6%
- Jan–Mar 202621 flights—
- Jul–Sep 202633 flights59.4%
Scale runs 50% 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 80.3% on time across 211 flights.
PSA on DFW to HRL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 59.4%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 70 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 93.3% on time and Monday the weakest at 73.3%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DFW to HRL runs when it is late
PSA on DFW to HRL often beats the schedule: 61 of 198 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 39 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early61 flights30.8%
- Within 15 min98 flights49.5%
- 15–29 min late13 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late10 flights5.1%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights3.0%
- 2+ hours late10 flights5.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 198 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 43 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DFW to HRL
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 24 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 24 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 September 2025 | 11 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 October 2025 | 10 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 July 2026 | 3 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 July 2026 | 2 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 5,095 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 45%Carrier
- 3%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,095 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 5,095 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,273 of the 5,095 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 6.16%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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
8.1% 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 2.2 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 461 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 83.8% on time across 211 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 211 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 HRL
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.16% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.2 hours; 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. 198 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.