Carrier route record
OHDFW→LIT
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Little Rock
- Flights
- 142
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 5%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on DFW to LIT 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 about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 142 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,748 at 83.1% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to LIT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 136 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.23%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.2%
Every carrier on DFW to LIT, 2,657 flights
These figures cover 142 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on DFW to LIT
PSA flew 142 of the 2,657 flights on DFW to LIT, about 5% of it. Its 75.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.1% to American at 59.2%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 83.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 59.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 425 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,748 | 83.1% | 58 min | 1.95% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 342 | 78.0% | 69 min | 1.75% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 142 | 75.7% | 67 min | 4.23% | B− |
| American Airlines | 425 | 59.2% | 87 min | 2.59% | D |
The spread between Envoy and American is 24 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 24 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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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 142 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split PSA's DFW to LIT record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 75.7% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to LIT through the year
- Jul–Sep 20251 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202544 flights76.7%
- Jan–Mar 202641 flights84.2%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
- Jul–Sep 202650 flights72.9%
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 75.7% on time across 142 flights.
PSA on DFW to LIT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 84.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 72.9%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 47 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DFW to LIT runs when it is late
The 33 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early33 flights24.3%
- Within 15 min70 flights51.5%
- 15–29 min late10 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late10 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late5 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 136 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 28 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 7 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LIT.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DFW to LIT
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 June 2026, 3 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 June 2026 | 3 hours 55 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 1 December 2025 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 November 2025 | 2 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 February 2026 | 2 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 February 2026 | 2 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,222 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
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 78.6% on time here. The split is drawn from 2,222 reported delay minutes.
No single cause dominates. late-arriving aircraft at 34%, carrier at 31% and national airspace system at 23% split the 2,222 reported delay minutes between them. An even spread like this usually means the operation is running close to its designed capacity with no one obvious weak point, and it is the hardest pattern for a traveller to route around.
Cancellations run at 4.23%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
9.6% 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 304 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 72.6% on time across 142 flights, 3 points below 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 142 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 LIT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.23% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 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. 136 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to LIT, every carrier
- PSA on LIT to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to LIT83.1%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to LIT78.0%
- American Airlines on DFW to LIT59.2%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.