Route reliability record
PIA→DFW
Peoria to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,054
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 672 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.6% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,054 PIA to DFW flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Best time to fly PIA to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Thursday. Flights in that window arrived on time 86.3% of the time and Thursday flights 83.3%, against 79.1% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,004 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.61%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
78.3% on time across 869 flights
These figures cover 1,054 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on PIA to DFW
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 | 185 | 82.7% | 68 min | 3.24% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 869 | 78.3% | 91 min | 3.68% | B− |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Peoria to Dallas-Fort Worth
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 2 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. BMI → DFWBloomington to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 88.0% | 89.3% | 1.51% | 5am–8am, Tue | MQ 3370 06:20 |
| 2. PIA → DFWPeoria to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 75.4% | 78.3% | 3.68% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am360 flights86.3%
- 8am–11am60 flights82.8%
- 11am–2pm276 flights80.1%
- 2pm–5pm216 flights69.6%
- 5pm–8pm142 flights72.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 86.3% of the time, against 69.6% for the afternoon window. That is 17 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 360 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter PIA to DFW by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On PIA to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 86.3% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 69.6%, a wide gap of 16.7 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am86.3%
- 8–11am82.8%
- 11am–2pm80.1%
- 2–5pm69.6%
- 5–8pm72.1%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 18 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 69.9%. January is the strongest month at 87.5%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 18 points. May was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 83.3% on time and Monday the weakest at 74.5%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
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 18,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one. The split is drawn from 18,334 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 86.3% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.61%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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 actually costs
10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 672 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.
The return leg runs 77.8% on time across 1,056 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. 1,054 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.61% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 1,004 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
PIA to DFW questions
How often is PIA to DFW delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.9% of the 1,054 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is PIA to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
79.1% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 2 points in its favour. That is worth a B− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on PIA to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 86.3% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 69.6%, 17 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are March delays on PIA to DFW?
March is the weakest month at 69.9% on time, compared with 87.5% in January. Across the year that is 18 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to PIA — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on PIA to DFW82.7%
- PSA Airlines on PIA to DFW78.3%
- PIA to ORD, a related route70.5%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- PIA to CLT, a related route78.8%
- Envoy Air on-time record82.7%
- PSA Airlines on-time record78.3%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. PIA to DFW and DFW to PIA are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.