Carrier route record
OHMGM→DFW
PSA Airlines · Montgomery to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 769
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 72%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on MGM to DFW carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 6.6% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 769 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on MGM 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
74.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 715 completed flights
Avg delay
181 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.63%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.5%
Every carrier on MGM to DFW, 1,062 flights
These figures cover 769 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.1% 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 MGM to DFW
PSA flew 769 of the 1,062 flights on MGM to DFW, most of the route. Its 74.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 75.3% to PSA at 74.3%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 231 | 75.3% | 71 min | 2.16% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 62 | 75.0% | 67 min | 3.23% | B− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 769 | 74.3% | 181 min | 6.63% | 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 10 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–8am293 flights79.2%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm187 flights74.9%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm289 flights68.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 79.2% of the time, against 68.8% for the evening window. That is 10 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 293 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on MGM to DFW through the year
December is the weak month at 64.4% on time, against 85.7% in April. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. December was the busiest month here, with 91 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 84.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.3%. 19 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. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 33,000 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.
- 52%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Extreme weather
- 5%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 17,000 of the 33,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 33,361 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 79.2% on time here.
Cancellations run at 6.63%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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. 15.1% 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.
The 622 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 runs 71.5% on time across 769 flights, within 3 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. 769 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 MGM to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.63% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 3.0 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. 715 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.