Carrier route record

OHDFW→MAF

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Midland

Flights: 383
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
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 MAF lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 383 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,769 at 82.2% on time.

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

On time

76.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights

Avg delay

98 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.96%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.4%

Every carrier on DFW to MAF, 2,934 flights

These figures cover 383 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% 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 MAF

PSA flew 383 of the 2,934 flights on DFW to MAF, about 13% of it. Its 76.6% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.2% to PSA at 76.6%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 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 MAF
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,769	82.2%	55 min	2.60%	B
SkyWest Airlines	782	78.0%	83 min	2.17%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)	383	76.6%	98 min	4.96%	B−

No carrier stands out. Envoy tops the table at 82.2%, 4 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

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 28 points, against 4 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am116 flights87.7%
11am–2pm21 flights—
2pm–5pm116 flights79.3%
5pm–8pm15 flights—
8pm–5am115 flights60.0%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.0% on time, against 87.7% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 116 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to MAF through the year

Jul–Sep 202528 flights—
Oct–Dec 202552 flights75.0%
Jan–Mar 2026121 flights87.0%
Apr–Jun 2026182 flights68.8%

Scale runs 60% 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 76.6% on time across 383 flights.

PSA on DFW to MAF did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 87.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 68.8%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 128 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, Friday is the strongest day at 89.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.9%. 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 45% of the 8,289 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
45%
Carrier
41%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
4%

45% 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 8,289 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 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 8,289 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, 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 3,386 of the 8,289 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 4.96%, 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. 11.0% 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 309 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 runs 78.8% on time across 382 flights, within 2 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. 383 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 MAF

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.96% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 364 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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