Carrier route record

OHTUL→DFW

PSA Airlines · Tulsa to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 176
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on TUL 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, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 176 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 820 at 84.1% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on TUL to DFW runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 81 extra late arrivals.

On time

69.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 164 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.82%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.8%

Every carrier on TUL to DFW, 2,848 flights

These figures cover 176 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.4% 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 TUL to DFW

PSA flew 176 of the 2,848 flights on TUL to DFW, about 6% of it. Its 69.5% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.1% to PSA at 69.5%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 84.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 75.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,640 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on TUL to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	820	84.1%	60 min	3.17%	B−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	212	82.0%	92 min	2.83%	B
American Airlines	1,640	75.0%	105 min	3.66%	B−
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	176	69.5%	82 min	6.82%	C−

American Airlines cancels 3.7% 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.

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 176 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am2 flights—
11am–2pm7 flights—
2pm–5pm129 flights70.5%
5pm–8pm38 flights70.6%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 60% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 70.6% on time. The full set of windows spans half a point.

Across the year

PSA on TUL to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202592 flights70.9%
Oct–Dec 202538 flights69.4%
Jan–Mar 202640 flights69.4%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 60% 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 69.5% on time across 176 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on TUL to DFW held fairly steady: 70.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 69.4% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 69.4% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

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 4,110 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
58%
Carrier
16%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
10%

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 4,110 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 4,110 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 6.82%, 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. 13.4% 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.

At 237 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.0% on time across 176 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 176 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 TUL to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.82% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 164 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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