Carrier route record

OHMCI→DFW

PSA Airlines · Kansas City to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 113
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 4%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on MCI to DFW draws a D−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 113 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 413 at 79.9% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on MCI to DFW runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 130 extra late arrivals.

On time

64.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 99 completed flights

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

11.50%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

74.5%

Every carrier on MCI to DFW, 2,537 flights

These figures cover 113 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.2% 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 MCI to DFW

PSA flew 113 of the 2,537 flights on MCI to DFW, about 4% of it. Its 64.6% on time is 10 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.9% to PSA at 64.6%. 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 79.9% of the time; American Airlines manages 73.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,994 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on MCI to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	413	79.9%	78 min	0.73%	B+
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	17	78.6%	231 min	17.65%	B−
American Airlines	1,994	73.8%	96 min	3.16%	C−
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	113	64.6%	69 min	11.50%	D−

American 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.

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 13 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm2 flights—
2pm–5pm71 flights60.3%
5pm–8pm40 flights73.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 73.5% on time. The full set of windows spans 13 points.

Across the year

PSA on MCI to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202531 flights—
Oct–Dec 20253 flights—
Apr–Jun 202679 flights68.7%

Scale runs 60% to 75%. 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 64.6% on time across 113 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on MCI to DFW logged 31 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 3 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 79 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 64.6% annual figure is the one to use.

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 2,410 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%
National Airspace System
27%
Carrier
14%

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 2,410 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 2,410 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 11.50%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in nine 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. 15.2% 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 460 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.5% on time across 114 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 113 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 MCI to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 11.50% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 99 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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