Carrier route record
OHDFW→HSV
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Huntsville
- Flights
- 722
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 35%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on DFW to HSV sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 722 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on DFW to HSV runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 41 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 687 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.43%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.3%
Every carrier on DFW to HSV, 2,056 flights
These figures cover 722 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.1% 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 HSV
PSA flew 722 of the 2,056 flights on DFW to HSV, about 35% of it. Its 73.5% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.8% to American at 51.5%. Two 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 | 1,022 | 82.8% | 64 min | 2.05% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 98 | 80.4% | 67 min | 1.02% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 722 | 73.5% | 95 min | 4.43% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 214 | 51.5% | 97 min | 4.67% | F− |
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 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am72 flights74.2%
- 8am–11am201 flights77.4%
- 11am–2pm9 flights—
- 2pm–5pm80 flights75.6%
- 5pm–8pm262 flights74.0%
- 8pm–5am98 flights63.8%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 63.8% on time, against 77.4% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 262 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to HSV through the year
Delays peak in April, when the on-time rate falls to 61.4%. February is the strongest month at 85.1%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 24 points. March was the busiest month here, with 123 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.7%. 15 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 57% of the 17,000 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.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
57% 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 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 17,322 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 77.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.43%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 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. 13.1% 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 603 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 74.2% on time across 721 flights, within half 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. 722 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 HSV
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.43% 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. 687 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to HSV, every carrier
- PSA on HSV to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to HSV82.8%
- American Airlines on DFW to HSV51.5%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.