Carrier route record
OHSBN→DFW
PSA Airlines · South Bend to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 139
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on SBN to DFW draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 139 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on SBN to DFW runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 140 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 132 completed flights
Avg delay
111 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.32%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
72.2%
Every carrier on SBN to DFW, 984 flights
These figures cover 139 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.7% 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 SBN to DFW
PSA flew 139 of the 984 flights on SBN to DFW, about 14% of it. Its 63.6% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 72.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 73.6% to PSA at 63.6%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 845 | 73.6% | 104 min | 2.25% | C |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 139 | 63.6% | 111 min | 4.32% | 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 139 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split PSA's SBN to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 63.6% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
PSA on SBN to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202544 flights62.8%
- Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights67.5%
Scale runs 55% to 75%. 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 63.6% on time across 139 flights.
Split by quarter, PSA on SBN to DFW logged 5 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 44 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 5 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 63.6% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 5,338 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.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
58% 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 5,338 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 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 5,338 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.32%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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. 16.7% 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 846 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.4% on time across 139 flights, 11 points above 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 139 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 SBN to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.32% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 132 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.