Carrier route record
OHPIA→DFW
PSA Airlines · Peoria to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 869
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 82%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on PIA to DFW carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.7% 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 869 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on PIA 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
78.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 825 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.68%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.1%
Every carrier on PIA to DFW, 1,054 flights
These figures cover 869 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on PIA to DFW
PSA flew 869 of the 1,054 flights on PIA to DFW, most of the route. Its 78.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.7% to PSA at 78.3%. 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 Airthin sample | 185 | 82.7% | 68 min | 3.24% | B− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 869 | 78.3% | 91 min | 3.68% | B− |
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am347 flights85.7%
- 8am–11am6 flights—
- 11am–2pm257 flights79.4%
- 2pm–5pm161 flights65.1%
- 5pm–8pm98 flights71.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 85.7% of the time, against 65.1% for the afternoon window. That is 21 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 347 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on PIA to DFW through the year
April is the best month on the calendar at 86.7% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. August was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 74.8%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on PIA to DFW runs when it is late
PSA on PIA to DFW often beats the schedule: 319 of 825 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 179 late arrivals split 45 under half an hour, 47 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 87 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early319 flights38.7%
- Within 15 min327 flights39.6%
- 15–29 min late45 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late47 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late50 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late37 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 825 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
43 of 190 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 32 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on PIA to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 July 2026, 17 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2026 | 17 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 June 2026 | 8 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 May 2026 | 7 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 May 2026 | 7 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 7 hours 6 minutes | Extreme weather |
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 16,000 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one. The split is drawn from 16,228 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,748 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.68%, against 1.89% 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
10.5% 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 76.6% on time across 871 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. 869 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 PIA to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.68% 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. 825 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.