Carrier route record
OHLBB→DFW
PSA Airlines · Lubbock to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 336
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on LBB to DFW lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About 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 336 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,503 at 84.3% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on LBB to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 315 completed flights
Avg delay
125 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.65%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.4%
Every carrier on LBB to DFW, 2,628 flights
These figures cover 336 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% 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 LBB to DFW
PSA flew 336 of the 2,628 flights on LBB to DFW, about 13% of it. Its 76.8% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.7% to PSA at 76.8%. 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 84.3% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 77.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 438 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 351 | 85.7% | 136 min | 4.56% | A− |
| Envoy Air | 1,503 | 84.3% | 93 min | 1.20% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines | 438 | 77.3% | 90 min | 4.11% | B− |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 336 | 76.8% | 125 min | 5.65% | B− |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 4.1% 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 18 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am56 flights89.1%
- 8am–11am54 flights80.8%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm79 flights77.0%
- 5pm–8pm144 flights71.0%
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.1% of the time, against 71.0% for the evening window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 144 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on LBB to DFW through the year
- Oct–Dec 202568 flights74.2%
- Jan–Mar 2026168 flights79.6%
- Apr–Jun 2026100 flights74.2%
Scale runs 65% 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 76.8% on time across 336 flights.
Quarter by quarter PSA on LBB to DFW held fairly steady: 74.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 79.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 74.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 82.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 72.7%. 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 51% of the 9,120 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.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 20%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,120 reported delay minutes.
51% 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 9,120 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.
Cancellations run at 5.65%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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. 11.7% 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 282 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 77.8% on time across 336 flights, within about a point 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. 336 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 LBB to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.65% 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. 315 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LBB to DFW, every carrier
- PSA on DFW to LBB, the return leg
- American Airlines on LBB to DFW85.7%
- Envoy Air on LBB to DFW84.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on LBB to DFW77.3%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.