Carrier route record

OHVPS→DFW

PSA Airlines · Valparaiso to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 159
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 12%
Carriers: 3

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

PSA on VPS to DFW lands a B−, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.3 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 159 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, PSA's VPS to DFW record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 57 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 150 completed flights

Avg delay

137 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.03%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

72.7%

Every carrier on VPS to DFW, 1,353 flights

These figures cover 159 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.

Carrier by carrier

PSA against every carrier on VPS to DFW

PSA flew 159 of the 1,353 flights on VPS to DFW, about 12% of it. Its 83.3% on time is 11 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 83.3% to American at 69.8%. One 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 VPS to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	159	83.3%	137 min	5.03%	B−
Envoy Airthin sample	165	80.2%	103 min	1.82%	B
American Airlines	1,029	69.8%	106 min	3.69%	C−

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 159 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split PSA's VPS to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 83.3% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

PSA on VPS to DFW through the year

Oct–Dec 202553 flights75.0%
Jan–Mar 202699 flights89.0%
Apr–Jun 20267 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. 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 83.3% on time across 159 flights.

Split by quarter, PSA on VPS to DFW logged 53 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 99 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 7 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 83.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 3,425 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.

Carrier
56%
Late-arriving aircraft
37%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
0%

37% 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 3,425 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 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 3,425 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, 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 1,901 of the 3,425 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 5.03%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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

7.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.3 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 641 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 87.3% on time across 159 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 159 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 VPS to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.03% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.3 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. 150 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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