Route reliability record
DFW→PIA
Dallas-Fort Worth to Peoria
- Flights
- 1,056
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 672 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.7% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,056 DFW to PIA flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Best time to fly DFW to PIA: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 85.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 82.9%, against 77.8% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,016 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.69%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
76.6% on time across 871 flights
These figures cover 1,056 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to PIA
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 | 185 | 83.2% | 39 min | 3.24% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 871 | 76.6% | 95 min | 3.79% | B− |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Peoria
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 2 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → BMIDallas-Fort Worth to Bloomington | Envoy Air | 82.2% | 83.5% | 1.51% | 11am–2pm, Tue | MQ 4254 21:01 |
| 2. DFW → PIADallas-Fort Worth to Peoria | PSA Airlines | 73.7% | 76.6% | 3.79% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am336 flights85.6%
- 11am–2pm190 flights81.1%
- 2pm–5pm171 flights75.9%
- 5pm–8pm37 flights59.4%
- 8pm–5am322 flights69.9%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 59.4% on time, against 85.6% 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 336 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to PIA by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On DFW to PIA, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 85.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 59.4%, a wide gap of 26.2 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am85.6%
- 11am–2pm81.1%
- 2–5pm75.9%
- 5–8pm59.4%
- 8pm–5am69.9%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 24 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
October is the best month on the calendar at 88.8% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. May was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 69.5%, a spread of 13 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 20,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 11%Extreme weather
- 11%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 11% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 19,707 reported delay minutes.
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.69%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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 actually costs
9.3% 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.
The 672 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.
The return leg runs 79.1% on time across 1,054 flights, within about a point 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. 1,056 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in PIA after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.69% 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. 1,016 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to PIA questions
How often is DFW to PIA delayed?
Roughly one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 22.2% of the 1,056 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is DFW to PIA compared with the rest of the country?
77.8% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of half a point in its favour. That is worth a B− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to PIA?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 85.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 59.4%, 26 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are March delays on DFW to PIA?
March is the weakest month at 64.7% on time, compared with 88.8% in October. Across the year that is 24 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- PIA to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to PIA83.2%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to PIA76.6%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- ORD to PIA, a related route70.1%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record83.2%
- PSA Airlines on-time record76.6%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to PIA and PIA to DFW are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.