Carrier route record
OHSBN→DFW
PSA Airlines · South Bend to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 196
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 20%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on SBN 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, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 196 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on SBN to DFW runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 58 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 186 completed flights
Avg delay
101 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.59%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.4%
Every carrier on SBN to DFW, 984 flights
These figures cover 196 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.9% 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 SBN to DFW
PSA flew 196 of the 984 flights on SBN to DFW, about 20% of it. Its 71.5% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 73.8% to PSA at 71.5%.
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 | 788 | 73.8% | 112 min | 2.03% | C |
| PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample | 196 | 71.5% | 101 min | 4.59% | C− |
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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 196 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 71.5% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
PSA on SBN to DFW through the year
- Oct–Dec 202544 flights62.8%
- Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights67.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights84.5%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. 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 71.5% on time across 196 flights.
PSA on SBN to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 84.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 62.8%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 65 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on SBN to DFW runs when it is late
PSA on SBN to DFW often beats the schedule: 75 of 186 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 53 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early75 flights40.3%
- Within 15 min58 flights31.2%
- 15–29 min late16 flights8.6%
- 30–59 min late13 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late13 flights7.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 186 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 53 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 10 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on SBN to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 May 2026, 10 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2026 | 10 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 November 2025 | 7 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 April 2026 | 6 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 5 hours 43 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 9 May 2026 | 5 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 5,376 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,376 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 5,376 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.59%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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
12.9% 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 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.7% on time across 196 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 196 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 4.59% 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. 186 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.