Route reliability record
DFW→JAN
Dallas-Fort Worth to Jackson
- Flights
- 1,905
- Period
- September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,905 DFW to JAN flights, of which Envoy Air flew 654 at 80.2% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to JAN: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 83.2% of the time and Tuesday flights 79.9%, against 75.6% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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
75.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,849 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.68%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
80.2% on time across 654 flights
These figures cover 1,905 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 80.2% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,102 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 654 | 80.2% | 59 min | 1.99% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 149 | 73.9% | 63 min | 4.70% | C− |
| PSA Airlines | 1,102 | 73.1% | 84 min | 2.81% | C |
Envoy leads PSA by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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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 | 78.6% | 80.2% | 1.99% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
| 2. DFW → JANDallas-Fort Worth to Jackson | PSA Airlines | 71.0% | 73.1% | 2.81% | 5pm–8pm, Fri | — |
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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am319 flights83.2%
- 8am–11am370 flights77.2%
- 11am–2pm132 flights74.8%
- 2pm–5pm380 flights75.5%
- 5pm–8pm271 flights79.0%
- 8pm–5am433 flights66.9%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 83.2% of the time, against 66.9% for the overnight window. That is 16 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 433 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to JAN by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On DFW to JAN, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 83.2% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 66.9%, a wide gap of 16.3 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am83.2%
- 8–11am77.2%
- 11am–2pm74.8%
- 2–5pm75.5%
- 5–8pm79.0%
- 8pm–5am66.9%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
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. May was the busiest month here, with 183 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 79.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.1%, a spread of 15 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 34,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 34,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 33,781 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 83.2% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.68%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 78.5% on time across 1,905 flights, within 3 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 1,905 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 calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 90.3% on time and June 59.6%, a swing of 31 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,849 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 24.4% of the 1,905 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% 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 80.2% on time across 654 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 73.1%, 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 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 83.2% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 66.9%, 16 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 JAN80.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to JAN73.9%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to JAN73.1%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- ATL to JAN, a related route83.9%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record80.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record73.9%
- PSA Airlines on-time record73.1%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.