Carrier route record
OHDFW→MGM
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Montgomery
- Flights
- 769
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 72%
- 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 MGM carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 6.2% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 769 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on DFW to MGM runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 61 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 720 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.24%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.6%
Every carrier on DFW to MGM, 1,062 flights
These figures cover 769 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.4% 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 MGM
PSA flew 769 of the 1,062 flights on DFW to MGM, most of the route. Its 71.5% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.0% to PSA at 71.5%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 231 | 84.0% | 62 min | 2.16% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 62 | 75.4% | 71 min | 1.61% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 769 | 71.5% | 90 min | 6.24% | C− |
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 769 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am130 flights73.6%
- 11am–2pm58 flights76.9%
- 2pm–5pm292 flights71.4%
- 5pm–8pm16 flights—
- 8pm–5am273 flights70.1%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 76.9% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 70.1%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 292 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to MGM through the year
December is the weak month at 59.1% on time, against 78.8% in April. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. December was the busiest month here, with 91 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 76.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 61.9%. 15 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 53% of the 18,000 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.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
53% 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 18,000 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 18,372 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 6.24%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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. 15.4% 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 622 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 runs 74.3% on time across 769 flights, within 3 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. 769 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 MGM
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.24% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 720 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.