Carrier route record
OHDFW→PIA
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Peoria
- Flights
- 871
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 82%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on DFW to PIA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.8% 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 871 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to PIA 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 837 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.79%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.8%
Every carrier on DFW to PIA, 1,056 flights
These figures cover 871 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on DFW to PIA
PSA flew 871 of the 1,056 flights on DFW to PIA, most of the route. Its 76.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.2% to PSA at 76.6%. One 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 | 185 | 83.2% | 39 min | 3.24% | B− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 871 | 76.6% | 95 min | 3.79% | B− |
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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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am263 flights86.3%
- 11am–2pm190 flights81.1%
- 2pm–5pm70 flights65.2%
- 5pm–8pm37 flights59.4%
- 8pm–5am311 flights69.4%
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 86.3% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 311 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to PIA through the year
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. August was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.0% on time and Monday the weakest at 68.5%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DFW to PIA runs when it is late
PSA on DFW to PIA often beats the schedule: 282 of 837 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 196 late arrivals split 46 under half an hour, 61 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 89 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early282 flights33.7%
- Within 15 min359 flights42.9%
- 15–29 min late46 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late61 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late51 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late38 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 837 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 193 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 23 made it up before arrival. 26 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DFW to PIA
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 December 2025, 19 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 December 2025 | 19 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 October 2025 | 14 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 May 2026 | 11 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 September 2025 | 11 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 August 2026 | 10 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 19,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 18,551 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 19,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.79%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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 costs
10.6% 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 78.3% on time across 869 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. 871 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 PIA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.79% 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. 837 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.