Carrier route record

OHDFW→LBB

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock

Flights: 336
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
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 LBB lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 336 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,502 at 84.1% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to LBB from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

77.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 315 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.25%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.3%

Every carrier on DFW to LBB, 2,628 flights

These figures cover 336 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% 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 LBB

PSA flew 336 of the 2,628 flights on DFW to LBB, about 13% of it. Its 77.8% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.1% to American at 59.8%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to LBB
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,502	84.1%	63 min	1.13%	B
SkyWest Airlines	440	78.9%	100 min	4.77%	B−
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	336	77.8%	81 min	6.25%	B−
American Airlinesthin sample	350	59.8%	96 min	4.00%	D−

SkyWest Airlines cancels 4.8% 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.

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 16 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am55 flights81.1%
11am–2pm73 flights79.7%
2pm–5pm117 flights75.0%
5pm–8pm37 flights87.5%
8pm–5am54 flights71.7%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 87.5% on time. The full set of windows spans 16 points.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to LBB through the year

Oct–Dec 202569 flights71.6%
Jan–Mar 2026167 flights82.8%
Apr–Jun 2026100 flights74.2%

Scale runs 65% 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 77.8% on time across 336 flights.

PSA on DFW to LBB did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.8% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 71.6%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 112 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 86.7% on time and Friday the weakest at 71.4%. 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 5,662 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
57%
Carrier
25%
Extreme weather
9%
National Airspace System
8%

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 5,662 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 5,662 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 6.25%, 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.5% 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 282 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 76.8% on time across 336 flights, within about 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. 336 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 LBB

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.25% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 315 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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