Carrier route record
OHFWA→DFW
PSA Airlines · Fort Wayne to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 430
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 42%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on FWA to DFW lands a B−, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.2 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 430 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on FWA to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 404 completed flights
Avg delay
135 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.81%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
78.4%
Every carrier on FWA to DFW, 1,034 flights
These figures cover 430 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 FWA to DFW
PSA flew 430 of the 1,034 flights on FWA to DFW, about 42% of it. Its 78.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.7% to Envoy at 78.1%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 15 | 86.7% | 262 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 430 | 78.5% | 135 min | 5.81% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 589 | 78.1% | 80 min | 1.36% | 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 430 flights.
- 5am–8am198 flights76.4%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm137 flights78.5%
- 2pm–5pm44 flights81.4%
- 5pm–8pm51 flights83.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 83.7% on time. The full set of windows spans 7 points.
Across the year
PSA on FWA to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202536 flights85.3%
- Oct–Dec 2025117 flights75.9%
- Jan–Mar 2026139 flights75.8%
- Apr–Jun 2026138 flights81.3%
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 78.5% on time across 430 flights.
Quarter by quarter PSA on FWA to DFW held fairly steady: 85.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 75.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 75.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 81.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.1%. 17 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. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 12,000 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.
- 51%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, 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 6,016 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 11,718 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.81%, 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
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.
The 859 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 77.1% on time across 431 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. 430 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 FWA to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.81% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.2 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 404 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.