Carrier route record

OHDFW→LEX

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lexington

Flights: 281
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 23%
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 LEX 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 close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 281 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

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

On time

75.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 266 completed flights

Avg delay

107 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.34%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

74.7%

Every carrier on DFW to LEX, 1,216 flights

These figures cover 281 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% 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 LEX

PSA flew 281 of the 1,216 flights on DFW to LEX, about 23% of it. Its 75.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 96.9% to American at 64.8%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to LEX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	32	96.9%	27 min	0.00%	A+
Envoy Air	585	78.6%	53 min	1.71%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	281	75.2%	107 min	5.34%	B−
American Airlinesthin sample	318	64.8%	97 min	2.20%	D

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 24 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–8am—
8am–11am65 flights90.6%
11am–2pm7 flights—
2pm–5pm85 flights67.1%
5pm–8pm2 flights—
8pm–5am122 flights71.3%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.6% of the time, against 67.1% for the afternoon window. That is 24 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 122 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to LEX through the year

Jul–Sep 2025152 flights79.3%
Oct–Dec 202576 flights69.9%
Jan–Mar 202611 flights—
Apr–Jun 202642 flights65.8%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. 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 75.2% on time across 281 flights.

PSA on DFW to LEX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 79.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 65.8%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 94 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, Saturday is the strongest day at 82.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 64.9%. 18 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 69% of the 7,079 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
69%
Carrier
15%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
5%

69% 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 7,079 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 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 7,079 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 90.6% on time here.

Cancellations run at 5.34%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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. 12.4% 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 785 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.0% on time across 282 flights, 7 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 7 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 281 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 LEX

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.34% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 266 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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