Route reliability record
DFW→JAN
Dallas-Fort Worth to Jackson
- Flights
- 1,926
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Distance
- 408 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,926 DFW to JAN flights, of which Envoy Air flew 694 at 79.9% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to JAN: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Monday. Flights in that window arrived on time 79.7% of the time and Monday flights 79.9%, against 75.5% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,858 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.17%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
Envoy
79.9% on time across 694 flights
These figures cover 1,926 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% 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
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to JAN
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 79.9% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 72.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,076 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 694 | 79.9% | 55 min | 2.74% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 156 | 75.0% | 63 min | 5.13% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 1,076 | 72.6% | 81 min | 3.16% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 3.2% 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.
Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Jackson
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → JANDallas-Fort Worth to Jackson | Envoy Air | 77.7% | 79.9% | 2.74% | 8am–11am, Mon | — |
| 2. DFW → JANDallas-Fort Worth to Jackson | PSA Airlines | 70.3% | 72.6% | 3.16% | 5am–8am, Mon | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
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 1,926 flights.
- 5am–8am318 flights78.6%
- 8am–11am365 flights79.7%
- 11am–2pm137 flights74.2%
- 2pm–5pm406 flights73.4%
- 5pm–8pm280 flights77.1%
- 8pm–5am420 flights70.8%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 79.7% of the time, against 70.8% for the overnight window. That is 9 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 420 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 31 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 59.6% on time, 31 points below September, the best at 90.3%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 188 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 79.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 69.7%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 33,000 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.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 11% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 32,755 reported delay minutes.
43% 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 33,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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.
Cancellations run at 3.17%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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 actually costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.3% 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 408 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 runs 77.1% on time across 1,926 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,926 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in JAN after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.17% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 1,858 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to JAN questions
How often is DFW to JAN delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 24.5% of the 1,926 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to JAN?
Envoy Air leads at 79.9% on time across 694 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 72.6%, a gap of 7 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to JAN?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 79.7% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 70.8%, 9 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on DFW to JAN?
June is the weakest month at 59.6% on time, compared with 90.3% in September. Across the year that is 31 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- JAN to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to JAN79.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to JAN75.0%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to JAN72.6%
- DFW to ORD, a related route67.6%
- ATL to JAN, a related route84.9%
- DFW to LGA, a related route67.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record79.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record75.0%
- PSA Airlines on-time record72.6%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to JAN and JAN to DFW are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.