Carrier route record

OHDFW→PNS

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Pensacola

Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 21%
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 PNS draws a D−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on DFW to PNS runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 127 extra late arrivals.

On time

64.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.26%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

66.7%

Every carrier on DFW to PNS, 1,749 flights

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.6% 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 PNS

PSA flew 361 of the 1,749 flights on DFW to PNS, about 21% of it. Its 64.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 66.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.6% to American at 64.4%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to PNS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	202	80.6%	50 min	0.50%	B+
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	29	79.3%	166 min	0.00%	B+
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	361	64.9%	83 min	5.26%	D−
American Airlines	1,157	64.4%	79 min	3.28%	D−

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 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am56 flights70.9%
11am–2pm66 flights72.1%
2pm–5pm104 flights68.7%
5pm–8pm59 flights68.4%
8pm–5am76 flights45.7%

Scale runs 35% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 45.7% on time, against 72.1% for the 11am–2pm 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 104 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to PNS through the year

Jul–Sep 2025145 flights67.1%
Oct–Dec 202519 flights—
Jan–Mar 202643 flights74.4%
Apr–Jun 2026154 flights60.9%

Scale runs 50% 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 64.9% on time across 361 flights.

PSA on DFW to PNS did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 60.9%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 120 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 70.4% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 56.1%. 14 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 47% of the 9,970 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
47%
Carrier
24%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
10%
Security
0%

47% 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 9,970 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 9,970 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 5.26%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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. 14.6% 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 604 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 65.8% on time across 361 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. 361 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 PNS

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.26% 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. 342 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.

Key figures