Carrier route record

OHDFW→MCI

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Kansas City

Flights: 114
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 4%
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 MCI 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 about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 114 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 413 at 86.1% on time.

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

On time

75.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 102 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

10.53%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

68.7%

Every carrier on DFW to MCI, 2,539 flights

These figures cover 114 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% 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 MCI

PSA flew 114 of the 2,539 flights on DFW to MCI, about 4% of it. Its 75.5% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 68.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.1% to American at 64.7%. 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 86.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 64.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,995 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to MCI
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	413	86.1%	48 min	0.73%	A+
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	114	75.5%	66 min	10.53%	B−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	17	71.4%	99 min	17.65%	C−
American Airlines	1,995	64.7%	78 min	3.11%	D−

American Airlines cancels 3.1% 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 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 114 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm73 flights75.8%
2pm–5pm40 flights74.3%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am1 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 75.8% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to MCI through the year

Jul–Sep 202531 flights—
Oct–Dec 20254 flights—
Apr–Jun 202679 flights76.8%

Scale runs 70% to 80%. 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 75.5% on time across 114 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on DFW to MCI logged 31 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 4 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 79 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 75.5% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 1,638 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
54%
Carrier
27%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
8%

54% 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 1,638 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 1,638 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 10.53%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in nine 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. 9.8% 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 460 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 64.6% on time across 113 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 114 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 MCI

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 10.53% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 102 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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