Carrier route record
OHLIT→DFW
PSA Airlines · Little Rock to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 142
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 5%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on LIT to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 142 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,748 at 79.5% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on LIT to DFW runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 47 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 135 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.93%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.4%
Every carrier on LIT to DFW, 2,658 flights
These figures cover 142 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on LIT to DFW
PSA flew 142 of the 2,658 flights on LIT to DFW, about 5% of it. Its 72.6% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.5% to American at 68.5%. 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 79.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 68.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 426 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,748 | 79.5% | 87 min | 1.95% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 142 | 72.6% | 68 min | 4.93% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 342 | 72.4% | 107 min | 2.34% | C |
| American Airlines | 426 | 68.5% | 106 min | 3.05% | C− |
American Airlines cancels 3.0% 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.
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Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 142 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am56 flights75.9%
- 11am–2pm28 flights—
- 2pm–5pm52 flights67.3%
- 5pm–8pm6 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 75.9% of the time, against 67.3% for the afternoon window. That is 9 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 56 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on LIT to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 20251 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202544 flights69.8%
- Jan–Mar 202641 flights86.8%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
- Jul–Sep 202650 flights66.7%
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 72.6% on time across 142 flights.
PSA on LIT to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 86.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 66.7%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 47 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on LIT to DFW runs when it is late
PSA on LIT to DFW often beats the schedule: 54 of 135 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 37 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early54 flights40.0%
- Within 15 min44 flights32.6%
- 15–29 min late11 flights8.1%
- 30–59 min late12 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late6 flights4.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 135 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 37 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on LIT to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 November 2025, 3 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2025 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 1 December 2025 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 November 2025 | 2 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 February 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 August 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 69% of the 2,509 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%Extreme weather
- 9%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,509 reported delay minutes.
69% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,509 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one.
Cancellations run at 4.93%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
10.4% 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 304 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.7% on time across 142 flights, 3 points above 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 142 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 LIT to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.93% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 135 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIT to DFW, every carrier
- PSA on DFW to LIT, the return leg
- Envoy Air on LIT to DFW79.5%
- SkyWest Airlines on LIT to DFW72.4%
- American Airlines on LIT to DFW68.5%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.