Carrier route record

OHMAF→DFW

PSA Airlines · Midland to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 382
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on MAF to DFW lands a B−, about a point 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 382 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,769 at 83.8% on time.

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

On time

78.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

123 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.76%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.7%

Every carrier on MAF to DFW, 2,933 flights

These figures cover 382 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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 MAF to DFW

PSA flew 382 of the 2,933 flights on MAF to DFW, about 13% of it. Its 78.8% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.8% to PSA at 78.8%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 2 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.

On-time performance by carrier on MAF to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,769	83.8%	76 min	2.71%	B
SkyWest Airlines	782	81.9%	113 min	3.07%	B−
PSA Airlines (this page)	382	78.8%	123 min	5.76%	B−

SkyWest Airlines cancels 3.1% 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 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 382 flights.

5am–8am123 flights77.7%
8am–11am5 flights—
11am–2pm116 flights82.1%
2pm–5pm21 flights—
5pm–8pm117 flights76.4%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 82.1% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 76.4%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 123 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on MAF to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202528 flights—
Oct–Dec 202551 flights79.2%
Jan–Mar 2026121 flights84.2%
Apr–Jun 2026182 flights74.6%

Scale runs 65% 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 78.8% on time across 382 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on MAF to DFW held fairly steady: 79.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 74.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.2%. 17 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 58% of the 9,365 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
58%
Carrier
30%
Extreme weather
7%
National Airspace System
5%

58% 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 9,365 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 9,365 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 5.76%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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. 10.9% 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 309 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 76.6% on time across 383 flights, within 2 points 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. 382 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 MAF to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.76% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 359 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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