Carrier route record

OHICT→DFW

PSA Airlines · Wichita to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 781
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 32%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on ICT to DFW lands a B−, 2 points 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 close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 781 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,239 at 80.1% on time.

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

On time

79.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 753 completed flights

Avg delay

117 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.20%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.0%

Every carrier on ICT to DFW, 2,469 flights

These figures cover 781 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.2% 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 ICT to DFW

PSA flew 781 of the 2,469 flights on ICT to DFW, about 32% of it. Its 79.9% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.4% to American at 66.7%. 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 80.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 66.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 404 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on ICT to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	45	84.4%	149 min	0.00%	B+
Envoy Air	1,239	80.1%	77 min	3.07%	B−
PSA Airlines (this page)	781	79.9%	117 min	3.20%	B−
American Airlines	404	66.7%	112 min	3.96%	C−

American Airlines cancels 4.0% 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 13 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am218 flights88.8%
8am–11am193 flights82.7%
11am–2pm196 flights77.2%
2pm–5pm24 flights—
5pm–8pm84 flights67.5%
8pm–5am66 flights71.4%

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 88.8% of the time, against 67.5% for the evening 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 218 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on ICT to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025413 flights79.9%
Oct–Dec 2025214 flights83.2%
Jan–Mar 202665 flights67.7%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights81.0%

Scale runs 60% 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 79.9% on time across 781 flights.

PSA on ICT to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 83.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 67.7%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 195 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 83.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.5%. 10 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 64% of the 18,000 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
64%
Carrier
22%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
4%

64% 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 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 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 17,709 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 88.8% on time here.

Cancellations run at 3.20%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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. 10.2% 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 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 73.5% on time across 781 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. 781 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 ICT to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.20% 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. 753 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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