Carrier route record

OHLEX→DFW

PSA Airlines · Lexington to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 282
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 23%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on LEX to DFW lands a B−, 4 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 close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 282 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's LEX to DFW record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 266 completed flights

Avg delay

112 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.26%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.0%

Every carrier on LEX to DFW, 1,216 flights

These figures cover 282 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% 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 LEX to DFW

PSA flew 282 of the 1,216 flights on LEX to DFW, about 23% of it. Its 82.0% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 90.6% to American at 72.6%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

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 LEX to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	32	90.6%	47 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	282	82.0%	112 min	4.26%	B−
Envoy Air	584	76.3%	59 min	1.71%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	318	72.6%	146 min	2.20%	C

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 35 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–8am126 flights93.4%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm33 flights90.6%
2pm–5pm39 flights75.0%
5pm–8pm43 flights68.3%
8pm–5am41 flights58.3%

Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 58.3% on time, against 93.4% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 126 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on LEX to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025153 flights87.6%
Oct–Dec 202577 flights82.7%
Jan–Mar 202611 flights—
Apr–Jun 202641 flights58.3%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. 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 82.0% on time across 282 flights.

PSA on LEX to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 87.6% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 58.3%, a swing of 29 points on roughly 94 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, Sunday is the strongest day at 89.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 69.4%. 20 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 59% of the 5,397 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
59%
Carrier
33%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
1%

59% 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 5,397 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 59 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 5,397 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 93.4% on time here.

Cancellations run at 4.26%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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. 9.4% 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.

The 785 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.2% on time across 281 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 282 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 LEX to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.26% 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. 266 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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