Carrier route record
OHDFW→MEM
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Memphis
- Flights
- 161
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- 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 MEM 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 about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 161 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 659 at 76.5% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to MEM from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 158 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.86%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
67.4%
Every carrier on DFW to MEM, 2,388 flights
These figures cover 161 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% 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 MEM
PSA flew 161 of the 2,388 flights on DFW to MEM, about 7% of it. Its 76.6% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 76.6% to American at 62.3%. 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 76.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 62.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,529 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 161 | 76.6% | 62 min | 1.86% | B |
| Envoy Air | 659 | 76.5% | 56 min | 2.43% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 39 | 73.7% | 37 min | 2.56% | C |
| American Airlines | 1,529 | 62.3% | 69 min | 3.40% | D− |
American Airlines cancels 3.4% 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 161 flights.
- 5am–8am113 flights78.4%
- 8am–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm46 flights73.3%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 73.3% on time against 78.4% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 113 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to MEM through the year
- Jul–Sep 202533 flights81.8%
- Oct–Dec 202519 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202658 flights80.4%
- Apr–Jun 202651 flights76.0%
Scale runs 70% 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 76.6% on time across 161 flights.
Quarter by quarter PSA on DFW to MEM held fairly steady: 81.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 76.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
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 2,289 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
41% 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 2,289 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 2,289 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, 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 873 of the 2,289 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.86% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 431 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 74.7% on time across 162 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. 161 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 MEM
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 161 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 76.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 158 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to MEM, every carrier
- PSA on MEM to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to MEM76.5%
- American Airlines on DFW to MEM62.3%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.