Route reliability record
JAN→DFW
Jackson to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,905
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 408 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, about a point 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 1,905 JAN to DFW flights, of which Envoy Air flew 653 at 82.2% on time.
Best time to fly JAN to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Friday. Flights in that window arrived on time 85.2% of the time and Friday flights 87.3%, against 78.5% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route 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 1,843 completed flights
Avg delay
100 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.99%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
82.2% on time across 653 flights
These figures cover 1,905 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% 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 JAN to DFW
The two carriers here are closely matched: 6 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 653 | 82.2% | 66 min | 2.30% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 149 | 77.5% | 70 min | 4.70% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 1,103 | 76.3% | 119 min | 3.17% | B− |
PSA Airlines cancels 3.2% 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 Jackson 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. JAN → DFWJackson to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 80.3% | 82.2% | 2.30% | 11am–2pm, Fri | — |
| 2. JAN → DFWJackson to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 73.9% | 76.3% | 3.17% | 5am–8am, Fri | — |
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 14 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am509 flights85.2%
- 8am–11am319 flights84.4%
- 11am–2pm396 flights72.8%
- 2pm–5pm231 flights73.3%
- 5pm–8pm360 flights71.6%
- 8pm–5am90 flights84.3%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 85.2% of the time, against 71.6% for the evening 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 509 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter JAN 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 JAN to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 85.2% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 71.6%, a wide gap of 13.6 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am85.2%
- 8–11am84.4%
- 11am–2pm72.8%
- 2–5pm73.3%
- 5–8pm71.6%
- 8pm–5am84.3%
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 64.7% on time, 24 points below September, the best at 88.9%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 182 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 87.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.7%, a spread of 16 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 40,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 18%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 39,564 reported delay minutes.
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 40,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.99%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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 actually costs
10.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 408 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 75.6% on time across 1,905 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,905 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 delay figures matter less here than the 2.99% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 1,843 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
JAN to DFW questions
How often is JAN 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 21.5% of the 1,905 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 JAN to DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 82.2% on time across 653 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 76.3%, a gap of 6 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 JAN to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 85.2% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 71.6%, 14 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 JAN to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 64.7% on time, compared with 88.9% in September. 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 JAN — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on JAN to DFW82.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on JAN to DFW77.5%
- PSA Airlines on JAN to DFW76.3%
- JAN to ATL, a related route88.4%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- JAN to HOU, a related route83.8%
- Envoy Air on-time record82.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record77.5%
- PSA Airlines on-time record76.3%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. JAN to DFW and DFW to JAN 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.