Carrier route record
OHPNS→DFW
PSA Airlines · Pensacola to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 382
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on PNS to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 382 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on PNS to DFW runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 72 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
121 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.54%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.7%
Every carrier on PNS to DFW, 1,706 flights
These figures cover 382 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% 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 PNS to DFW
PSA flew 382 of the 1,706 flights on PNS to DFW, about 22% of it. Its 70.1% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.8% to PSA at 70.1%. 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 | 237 | 81.8% | 72 min | 0.42% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 1,087 | 73.0% | 122 min | 2.85% | C |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 382 | 70.1% | 121 min | 6.54% | C− |
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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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am102 flights72.2%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm44 flights65.9%
- 2pm–5pm71 flights62.5%
- 5pm–8pm165 flights73.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 73.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 11 points.
Across the year
PSA on PNS to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 20257 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202519 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202643 flights79.1%
- Apr–Jun 2026153 flights62.9%
- Jul–Sep 2026160 flights72.4%
Scale runs 55% 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 70.1% on time across 382 flights.
PSA on PNS to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 62.9%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 127 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, Friday is the strongest day at 78.8% on time and Saturday the weakest at 63.6%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on PNS to DFW runs when it is late
PSA on PNS to DFW often beats the schedule: 145 of 355 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 106 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 53 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early145 flights40.8%
- Within 15 min104 flights29.3%
- 15–29 min late24 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late29 flights8.2%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights8.2%
- 2+ hours late24 flights6.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 121 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on PNS to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 July 2026, 22 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 July 2026 | 22 hours 12 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 August 2026 | 17 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 May 2026 | 16 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 April 2026 | 14 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 6 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,772 reported delay minutes.
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 6.54%, against 1.89% 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
14.9% 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 604 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 65.1% on time across 383 flights, 5 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 382 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 PNS to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.54% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 355 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PNS to DFW, every carrier
- PSA on DFW to PNS, the return leg
- Envoy Air on PNS to DFW81.8%
- American Airlines on PNS to DFW73.0%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.