Carrier route record
OHDFW→PNS
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Pensacola
- Flights
- 383
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on DFW to PNS draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 383 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on DFW to PNS runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 122 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.74%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.5%
Every carrier on DFW to PNS, 1,706 flights
These figures cover 383 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.4% 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 PNS
PSA flew 383 of the 1,706 flights on DFW to PNS, about 22% of it. Its 65.1% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 67.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.2% to American at 65.0%. 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 | 237 | 82.2% | 50 min | 0.42% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 383 | 65.1% | 82 min | 5.74% | C− |
| American Airlines | 1,086 | 65.0% | 77 min | 2.85% | C |
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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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am33 flights64.5%
- 11am–2pm82 flights62.7%
- 2pm–5pm107 flights75.0%
- 5pm–8pm86 flights65.5%
- 8pm–5am75 flights52.9%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 52.9% on time, against 75.0% for the 2pm–5pm 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 107 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to PNS through the year
- Jul–Sep 20257 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202519 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202643 flights74.4%
- Apr–Jun 2026154 flights60.9%
- Jul–Sep 2026160 flights66.7%
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 65.1% on time across 383 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 128 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 73.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 59.6%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DFW to PNS runs when it is late
The 125 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 40 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 48 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early66 flights18.4%
- Within 15 min167 flights46.6%
- 15–29 min late37 flights10.3%
- 30–59 min late40 flights11.2%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late27 flights7.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 108 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 12 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 29 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at PNS.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DFW to PNS
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 April 2026, 6 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2026 | 6 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 November 2025 | 6 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 June 2026 | 6 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 May 2026 | 5 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 June 2026 | 5 hours 46 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 10,237 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.74%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
13.4% 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 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 70.1% on time across 382 flights, 5 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 383 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 5.74% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 358 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to PNS, every carrier
- PSA on PNS to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to PNS82.2%
- American Airlines on DFW to PNS65.0%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.