Carrier route record
OHMLI→DFW
PSA Airlines · Moline to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 319
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 33%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on MLI to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. 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 2.4 hours behind schedule. That rests on 319 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on MLI 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
75.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 304 completed flights
Avg delay
142 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.39%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.4%
Every carrier on MLI to DFW, 979 flights
These figures cover 319 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.2% 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 MLI to DFW
PSA flew 319 of the 979 flights on MLI to DFW, about 33% of it. Its 75.0% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.3% to PSA at 75.0%. One 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 Air | 602 | 86.3% | 78 min | 2.33% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 58 | 82.5% | 104 min | 1.72% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 319 | 75.0% | 142 min | 4.39% | B− |
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 319 flights.
- 5am–8am73 flights81.2%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm20 flights—
- 2pm–5pm198 flights74.6%
- 5pm–8pm28 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 81.2% on time for the 5am–8am window against 74.6% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 198 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on MLI to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202528 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights68.3%
- Jan–Mar 2026147 flights82.0%
- Apr–Jun 202658 flights75.0%
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 75.0% on time across 319 flights.
PSA on MLI to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 68.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 106 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.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.2%. 27 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
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 11,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,820 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, 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 4,232 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 4.39%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 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. 13.2% 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.
The 691 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 76.3% on time across 319 flights, within about a point 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. 319 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 MLI to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.39% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.4 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. 304 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
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.