Route reliability record
ICT→DFW
Wichita to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 2,421
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 328 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 2,421 ICT to DFW flights, of which PSA Airlines flew 544 at 82.1% on time.
Best time to fly ICT to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Thursday. Flights in that window arrived on time 88.1% of the time and Thursday flights 82.6%, against 79.9% for the route overall.
PSA Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 82.1% on time across 544 flights.
Key figures
On time
79.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,349 completed flights
Avg delay
93 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.77%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
82.1% on time across 544 flights
These figures cover 2,421 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on ICT to DFW
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. PSA Airlines arrives on time 82.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 68.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 399 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 88 | 85.2% | 151 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 544 | 82.1% | 112 min | 3.31% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 1,390 | 82.0% | 71 min | 2.52% | B |
| American Airlines | 399 | 68.0% | 117 min | 3.51% | C− |
American Airlines cancels 3.5% 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.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Wichita to Dallas-Fort Worth
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. ICT → DFWWichita to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 79.9% | 82.0% | 2.52% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
| 2. ICT → DFWWichita to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 79.4% | 82.1% | 3.31% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 3. ICT → DFWWichita to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 65.6% | 68.0% | 3.51% | 5am–8am, Thu | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against 14 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am492 flights88.1%
- 8am–11am584 flights85.1%
- 11am–2pm361 flights81.9%
- 2pm–5pm425 flights73.9%
- 5pm–8pm421 flights68.9%
- 8pm–5am138 flights75.4%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.1% of the time, against 68.9% for the evening window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 584 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter ICT to DFW by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On ICT to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 88.1% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 68.9%, a wide gap of 19.2 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am88.1%
- 8–11am85.1%
- 11am–2pm81.9%
- 2–5pm73.9%
- 5–8pm68.9%
- 8pm–5am75.4%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 24 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 65.6% on time, 24 points below February, the best at 90.0%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. October was the busiest month here, with 227 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 82.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.8%, a spread of 8 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 44,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 44,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 43,998 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 88.1% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.77%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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 actually costs
8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 328 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 76.5% on time across 2,419 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,421 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 90.0% on time and June 65.6%, a swing of 24 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 2,349 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
ICT to DFW questions
How often is ICT to DFW delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.1% of the 2,421 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on ICT to DFW?
PSA Airlines leads at 82.1% on time across 544 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 68.0%, a gap of 14 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on ICT to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 88.1% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 68.9%, 19 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on ICT to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 65.6% on time, compared with 90.0% in February. Across the year that is 24 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ICT — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on ICT to DFW82.1%
- Envoy Air on ICT to DFW82.0%
- American Airlines on ICT to DFW68.0%
- ICT to DEN, a related route78.7%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- ICT to ORD, a related route74.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record85.2%
- PSA Airlines on-time record82.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record82.0%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. ICT to DFW and DFW to ICT are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.