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Carrier route record

OHHRLDFW

PSA Airlines · Harlingen to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights
204
Period
July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route
14%
Carriers
2
B−GRADE

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

PSA on HRL to DFW 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 about 2.1 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 204 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's HRL to DFW record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 56 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

Key figures

On time

83.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 191 completed flights

Avg delay

127 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.88%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.5%

Every carrier on HRL to DFW, 1,495 flights

These figures cover 204 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% 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 HRL to DFW

PSA flew 204 of the 1,495 flights on HRL to DFW, about 14% of it. Its 83.2% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 85.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.8% to PSA at 83.2%.

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 HRL to DFW
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Envoy Air1,29185.8%81 min2.40%A
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample20483.2%127 min5.88%B−

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

  • 5am–8am74 flights90.1%
  • 8am–11am18 flights
  • 11am–2pm7 flights
  • 2pm–5pm93 flights76.4%
  • 5pm–8pm12 flights
  • 8pm–5am

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.1% of the time, against 76.4% for the afternoon window. That is 14 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 93 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on HRL to DFW through the year

  • Jul–Sep 202583 flights80.2%
  • Oct–Dec 2025100 flights84.6%
  • Jan–Mar 202621 flights

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 83.2% on time across 204 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on HRL to DFW logged 83 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 100 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 21 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 83.2% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,060 reported delay minutes.

  • Carrier
    35%
  • Late-arriving aircraft
    35%
  • National Airspace System
    19%
  • Extreme weather
    11%

35% 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 4,060 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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 4,060 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, 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 1,433 of the 4,060 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 5.88%, 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. 9.9% 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 461 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 84.8% on time across 204 flights, within 2 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. 204 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 HRL to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.88% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 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. 191 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.