Carrier route record
OHDFW→SBN
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to South Bend
- Flights
- 196
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 20%
- 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 SBN lands a B−, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That rests on 196 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to SBN from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 188 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.57%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.9%
Every carrier on DFW to SBN, 984 flights
These figures cover 196 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on DFW to SBN
PSA flew 196 of the 984 flights on DFW to SBN, about 20% of it. Its 78.7% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 78.7% to SkyWest at 72.7%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 196 | 78.7% | 49 min | 3.57% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 788 | 72.7% | 96 min | 1.52% | C |
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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 196 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split PSA's DFW to SBN record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 78.7% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to SBN through the year
- Oct–Dec 202544 flights66.7%
- Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights81.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights84.7%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. 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 78.7% on time across 196 flights.
PSA on DFW to SBN did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 84.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 66.7%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 65 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DFW to SBN runs when it is late
PSA on DFW to SBN often beats the schedule: 69 of 188 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 20 of the 40 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 10 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early69 flights36.7%
- Within 15 min79 flights42.0%
- 15–29 min late20 flights10.6%
- 30–59 min late10 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late4 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 188 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 35 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 11 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 SBN.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DFW to SBN
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 August 2026, 3 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2026 | 3 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 June 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 June 2026 | 2 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 1 hour 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 1,966 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,966 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 1,966 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 796 of the 1,966 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.57%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 846 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 71.5% on time across 196 flights, 7 points below 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 196 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 SBN
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.57% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 50 minutes; 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. 188 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.