Carrier route record

OHDFW→JAN

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Jackson

Flights: 1,076
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 56%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on DFW to JAN sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,076 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on DFW to JAN runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 50 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,038 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.16%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

75.5%

Every carrier on DFW to JAN, 1,926 flights

These figures cover 1,076 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 JAN

PSA flew 1,076 of the 1,926 flights on DFW to JAN, most of the route. Its 72.6% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.9% to PSA at 72.6%. One 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to JAN
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 (this page)	1,076	72.6%	81 min	3.16%	C−

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 1,076 flights.

5am–8am292 flights77.0%
8am–11am268 flights76.2%
11am–2pm44 flights71.4%
2pm–5pm163 flights67.9%
5pm–8pm26 flights—
8pm–5am283 flights67.5%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 77.0% of the time, against 67.5% for the overnight window. That is 10 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 292 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to JAN through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.January best, June worst

June is the worst month at 56.3% on time, 27 points below January, the best at 83.3%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 148 flights.

Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 78.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 66.0%. 12 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 43% of the 23,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
43%
Carrier
37%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
9%
Security
0%

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 23,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 23,021 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, 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 8,412 of the 23,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 3.16%, 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 costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.6% 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 75.2% on time across 1,074 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.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,076 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 JAN

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.16% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,038 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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.

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