Route reliability record
SGF→DFW
Springfield to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 3,086
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 364 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 3,086 SGF to DFW flights, of which PSA Airlines flew 387 at 84.3% on time.
Best time to fly SGF to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Friday. Flights in that window arrived on time 89.7% of the time and Friday flights 85.7%, against 82.0% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,008 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.27%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
84.3% on time across 387 flights
These figures cover 3,086 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on SGF to DFW
The two carriers here are closely matched: 2 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 387 | 84.3% | 108 min | 5.68% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 2,574 | 81.9% | 83 min | 1.71% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 125 | 78.3% | 78 min | 3.20% | B− |
PSA Airlines cancels 5.7% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on SGF to DFW
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Springfield to Dallas-Fort Worth
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. SGF → DFWSpringfield to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 80.5% | 81.9% | 1.71% | 5am–8am, Wed | MQ 3976 06:00 |
| 2. SGF → DFWSpringfield to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 79.5% | 84.3% | 5.68% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 28 points, against 2 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am705 flights89.7%
- 8am–11am877 flights83.8%
- 11am–2pm462 flights82.9%
- 2pm–5pm530 flights78.7%
- 5pm–8pm474 flights71.6%
- 8pm–5am38 flights62.2%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 62.2% on time, against 89.7% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 877 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter SGF to DFW by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On SGF to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 89.7% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 62.2%, a wide gap of 27.5 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am89.7%
- 8–11am83.8%
- 11am–2pm82.9%
- 2–5pm78.7%
- 5–8pm71.6%
- 8pm–5am62.2%
best all US flightsScale 55% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 18 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 73.2% on time, 18 points below February, the best at 90.8%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. October was the busiest month here, with 287 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 85.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 75.1%, a spread of 11 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 46,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 46,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 46,282 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.7% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.27% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.26%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
6.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 364 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 82.3% on time across 3,088 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 3,086 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 90.8% on time and June 73.2%, a swing of 18 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 3,008 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SGF to DFW questions
How often is SGF to DFW delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 18.0% of the 3,086 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on SGF to DFW?
PSA Airlines leads at 84.3% on time across 387 flights. Envoy Air is at the other end on 81.9%, a gap of 2 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on SGF to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 89.7% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 62.2%, 28 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on SGF to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 73.2% on time, compared with 90.8% in February. Across the year that is 18 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to SGF — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on SGF to DFW84.3%
- Envoy Air on SGF to DFW81.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on SGF to DFW78.3%
- SGF to ORD, a related route71.2%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- SGF to DEN, a related route80.5%
- PSA Airlines on-time record84.3%
- Envoy Air on-time record81.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record78.3%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. SGF to DFW and DFW to SGF are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.