Carrier route record

OHDFW→XNA

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Bentonville

Flights: 332
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 9%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on DFW to XNA lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five 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 332 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 2,441 at 82.5% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to XNA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights

Avg delay

77 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.52%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.2%

Every carrier on DFW to XNA, 3,532 flights

These figures cover 332 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on DFW to XNA

PSA flew 332 of the 3,532 flights on DFW to XNA, about 9% of it. Its 78.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.5% to American at 62.8%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 82.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 62.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 696 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to XNA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	2,441	82.5%	57 min	1.97%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	332	78.2%	77 min	4.52%	B−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	63	77.0%	50 min	3.17%	B−
American Airlines	696	62.8%	105 min	4.17%	D−

American Airlines cancels 4.2% 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.

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 20 points, against 20 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am161 flights85.2%
8am–11am24 flights—
11am–2pm59 flights73.2%
2pm–5pm34 flights67.7%
5pm–8pm49 flights65.2%
8pm–5am5 flights—

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 85.2% of the time, against 65.2% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 161 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to XNA through the year

Jul–Sep 2025114 flights86.4%
Oct–Dec 202544 flights76.2%
Jan–Mar 2026115 flights72.2%
Apr–Jun 202659 flights75.0%

Scale runs 65% 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 78.2% on time across 332 flights.

PSA on DFW to XNA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.2%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 83 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 64.3%. 24 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 56% of the 5,343 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
56%
Carrier
27%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
4%

56% 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 5,343 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 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 5,343 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 85.2% on time here.

Cancellations run at 4.52%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 280 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 75.7% on time across 333 flights, within 3 points 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. 332 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 XNA

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.52% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 316 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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