Carrier route record

OHDFW→SGF

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Springfield

Flights: 349
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 11%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on DFW to SGF lands a B−, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's DFW to SGF record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 327 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.02%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.1%

Every carrier on DFW to SGF, 3,087 flights

These figures cover 349 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on DFW to SGF

PSA flew 349 of the 3,087 flights on DFW to SGF, about 11% of it. Its 83.5% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 88.0% to Envoy at 80.5%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to SGF
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	123	88.0%	88 min	4.07%	A−
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	349	83.5%	71 min	6.02%	B−
Envoy Air	2,615	80.5%	57 min	1.84%	B

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 349 flights.

5am–8am24 flights—
8am–11am199 flights84.4%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm126 flights80.0%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 84.4% on time for the 8am–11am window against 80.0% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 199 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to SGF through the year

Oct–Dec 2025133 flights80.3%
Jan–Mar 2026162 flights85.2%
Apr–Jun 202654 flights86.3%

Scale runs 70% 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 83.5% on time across 349 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on DFW to SGF held fairly steady: 80.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 86.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 78.7%. 8 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 45% of the 3,817 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
45%
Carrier
40%
National Airspace System
8%
Extreme weather
7%

45% 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 3,817 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 3,817 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,533 of the 3,817 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 6.02%, against 1.81% 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

5.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 84.7% on time across 349 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. 349 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 SGF

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.02% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 327 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.

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