Carrier route record
OHDFW→HRL
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Harlingen
- Flights
- 204
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on DFW to HRL earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.5 hours. That rests on 204 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's DFW to HRL record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 191 completed flights
Avg delay
150 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.37%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
84.5%
Every carrier on DFW to HRL, 1,495 flights
These figures cover 204 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.
Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on DFW to HRL
PSA flew 204 of the 1,495 flights on DFW to HRL, about 14% of it. Its 84.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 84.8% to Envoy at 84.5%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 204 | 84.8% | 150 min | 6.37% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 1,291 | 84.5% | 55 min | 2.48% | B |
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 204 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am25 flights—
- 11am–2pm93 flights86.7%
- 2pm–5pm14 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am72 flights82.4%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 86.7% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to HRL through the year
- Jul–Sep 202584 flights84.1%
- Oct–Dec 202599 flights85.6%
- Jan–Mar 202621 flights—
Scale runs 75% 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 84.8% on time across 204 flights.
Split by quarter, PSA on DFW to HRL logged 84 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 99 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 21 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 84.8% 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 51% of the 4,339 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.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 46%Carrier
- 2%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
51% 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 4,339 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 29 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 4,339 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,982 of the 4,339 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 6.37%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.5 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 runs 83.2% on time across 204 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. 204 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 6.37% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.5 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. 191 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.