Route reliability record
DFW→SGF
Dallas-Fort Worth to Springfield
- Flights
- 3,088
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 364 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 3,088 DFW to SGF flights, of which PSA Airlines flew 387 at 84.1% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to SGF: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.2% of the time and Tuesday flights 86.6%, against 82.3% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,016 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.10%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
84.1% on time across 387 flights
These figures cover 3,088 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to SGF
The two carriers here are closely matched: 2 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 125 | 88.2% | 88 min | 4.00% | A− |
| PSA Airlines | 387 | 84.1% | 75 min | 5.43% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 2,576 | 81.7% | 59 min | 1.51% | B |
PSA Airlines cancels 5.4% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to SGF
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Springfield
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → SGFDallas-Fort Worth to Springfield | Envoy Air | 80.5% | 81.7% | 1.51% | 5am–8am, Tue | MQ 4092 21:00 |
| 2. DFW → SGFDallas-Fort Worth to Springfield | PSA Airlines | 79.5% | 84.1% | 5.43% | 8am–11am, Thu | — |
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 18 points, against 2 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am246 flights91.2%
- 8am–11am709 flights87.4%
- 11am–2pm273 flights88.9%
- 2pm–5pm578 flights81.7%
- 5pm–8pm681 flights73.3%
- 8pm–5am601 flights80.4%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.2% of the time, against 73.3% for the evening window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 709 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to SGF 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 SGF, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 91.2% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 73.3%, a wide gap of 17.9 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am91.2%
- 8–11am87.4%
- 11am–2pm88.9%
- 2–5pm81.7%
- 5–8pm73.3%
- 8pm–5am80.4%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 18 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.
June is the worst month at 72.5% on time, 18 points below February, the best at 90.4%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. October was the busiest month here, with 287 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 86.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.5%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 33,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 33,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 32,803 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.2% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.23%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
5.9% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 364 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 82.0% on time across 3,086 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 3,088 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in SGF after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 90.4% on time and June 72.5%, a swing of 18 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 3,016 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to SGF questions
How often is DFW to SGF delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 17.7% of the 3,088 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to SGF?
PSA Airlines leads at 84.1% on time across 387 flights. Envoy Air is at the other end on 81.7%, a gap of 2 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to SGF?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 91.2% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 73.3%, 18 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 June delays on DFW to SGF?
June is the weakest month at 72.5% on time, compared with 90.4% in February. Across the year that is 18 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
- SGF to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to SGF88.2%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to SGF84.1%
- Envoy Air on DFW to SGF81.7%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- ORD to SGF, a related route74.5%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record88.2%
- PSA Airlines on-time record84.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record81.7%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. DFW to SGF and SGF 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.