Carrier route record

OHHOU→DFW

PSA Airlines · Houston to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 607
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 30%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on HOU to DFW lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 607 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,061 at 80.9% on time.

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

On time

77.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 569 completed flights

Avg delay

103 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.77%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.9%

Every carrier on HOU to DFW, 2,048 flights

These figures cover 607 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.5% 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 HOU to DFW

PSA flew 607 of the 2,048 flights on HOU to DFW, about 30% of it. Its 77.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.9% to SkyWest at 70.6%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 80.9% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 70.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 380 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on HOU to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,061	80.9%	68 min	2.73%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)	607	77.2%	103 min	5.77%	B−
SkyWest Airlines	380	70.6%	120 min	6.84%	C−

SkyWest Airlines cancels 6.8% 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 21 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am176 flights87.3%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm199 flights75.5%
2pm–5pm72 flights73.9%
5pm–8pm81 flights72.0%
8pm–5am79 flights66.2%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.3% of the time, against 66.2% for the overnight window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 199 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on HOU to DFW through the year

Oct–Dec 2025199 flights77.1%
Jan–Mar 2026284 flights81.3%
Apr–Jun 2026124 flights68.3%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. 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 77.2% on time across 607 flights.

PSA on HOU to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 68.3%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 202 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 68.2%. 15 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 57% of the 13,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
57%
Carrier
23%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
10%
Security
0%

57% 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 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 13,446 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 87.3% on time here.

Cancellations run at 5.77%, 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. 12.5% 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 247 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.4% on time across 607 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 607 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 HOU to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.77% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 569 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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