Carrier route record
OHMEM→DFW
PSA Airlines · Memphis to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 162
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on MEM to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 2.2 hours behind schedule. That rests on 162 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 1,528 at 73.5% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on MEM 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
74.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 158 completed flights
Avg delay
130 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.0%
Every carrier on MEM to DFW, 2,390 flights
These figures cover 162 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% 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 MEM to DFW
PSA flew 162 of the 2,390 flights on MEM to DFW, about 7% of it. Its 74.7% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 74.7% to Envoy at 71.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 162 | 74.7% | 130 min | 2.47% | C |
| American Airlines | 1,528 | 73.5% | 96 min | 3.53% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 39 | 72.2% | 75 min | 5.13% | C− |
| Envoy Air | 661 | 71.7% | 80 min | 2.57% | C |
American Airlines cancels 3.5% 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 162 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am114 flights75.0%
- 11am–2pm35 flights82.9%
- 2pm–5pm13 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% 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 82.9% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 75.0%. 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 114 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on MEM to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202533 flights81.2%
- Oct–Dec 202519 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202659 flights75.4%
- Apr–Jun 202651 flights70.0%
Scale runs 60% 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 74.7% on time across 162 flights.
PSA on MEM to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 81.2% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 70.0%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 54 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.
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,214 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Extreme weather
- 25%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 32% 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 5.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,214 reported delay minutes.
36% 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 5,214 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 1 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 sit at 2.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 10.1% 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 431 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 161 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. 162 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 MEM to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 162 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 74.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 158 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MEM to DFW, every carrier
- PSA on DFW to MEM, the return leg
- American Airlines on MEM to DFW73.5%
- Envoy Air on MEM to DFW71.7%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.