Carrier route record
OHDFW→VPS
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Valparaiso
- Flights
- 159
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 12%
- 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 VPS earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 159 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, PSA's DFW to VPS record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 100 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 150 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.03%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.8%
Every carrier on DFW to VPS, 1,331 flights
These figures cover 159 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 VPS
PSA flew 159 of the 1,331 flights on DFW to VPS, about 12% of it. Its 87.3% on time is 20 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 87.3% to American at 62.1%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 159 | 87.3% | 65 min | 5.03% | A− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 152 | 86.0% | 53 min | 0.66% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 1,020 | 62.1% | 76 min | 2.65% | D |
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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 159 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split PSA's DFW to VPS record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 87.3% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to VPS through the year
- Oct–Dec 202553 flights81.1%
- Jan–Mar 202699 flights92.3%
- Apr–Jun 20267 flights—
Scale runs 75% to 100%. 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 87.3% on time across 159 flights.
Split by quarter, PSA on DFW to VPS logged 53 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 99 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 7 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 87.3% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DFW to VPS runs when it is late
The 19 late arrivals split 5 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 5 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early28 flights18.7%
- Within 15 min103 flights68.7%
- 15–29 min late5 flights3.3%
- 30–59 min late9 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late2 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 150 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 18 of 150 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on DFW to VPS
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 December 2025, 5 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 December 2025 | 5 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 November 2025 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 February 2026 | 1 hour 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 April 2026 | 1 hour 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 March 2026 | 1 hour 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 68% of the 1,241 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 68%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
68% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,241 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 50 to one. The split is drawn from 1,241 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 87.1% on time here.
Cancellations run at 5.03%, against 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 641 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 83.3% on time across 159 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 159 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 VPS
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.03% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 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. 150 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to VPS, every carrier
- PSA on VPS to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to VPS86.0%
- American Airlines on DFW to VPS62.1%
- 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.