Carrier route record

OHPNS→DFW

PSA Airlines · Pensacola to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 21%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on PNS to DFW draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on PNS to DFW runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 118 extra late arrivals.

On time

65.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights

Avg delay

96 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.37%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

69.9%

Every carrier on PNS to DFW, 1,748 flights

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% 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 PNS to DFW

PSA flew 361 of the 1,748 flights on PNS to DFW, about 21% of it. Its 65.8% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 76.6% to Spirit at 60.7%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on PNS to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	202	76.6%	76 min	0.50%	B+
American Airlines	1,157	70.2%	122 min	3.28%	C−
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	361	65.8%	96 min	6.37%	C−
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	28	60.7%	116 min	0.00%	D+

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 361 flights.

5am–8am77 flights62.0%
8am–11am31 flights67.7%
11am–2pm67 flights66.2%
2pm–5pm24 flights—
5pm–8pm162 flights67.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 67.7% on time for the 8am–11am window against 62.0% for 5am–8am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 162 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on PNS to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025146 flights62.9%
Oct–Dec 202519 flights—
Jan–Mar 202643 flights79.1%
Apr–Jun 2026153 flights62.9%

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 65.8% on time across 361 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 120 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 79.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 53.3%. 26 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 11,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
45%
Carrier
40%
Extreme weather
9%
National Airspace System
6%
Security
0%

45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 11,002 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, 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 4,396 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 6.37%, 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. 14.9% 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 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. 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 64.9% on time across 361 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. 361 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 6.37% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 336 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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.

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