Carrier route record
OHVPS→DFW
PSA Airlines · Valparaiso to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 159
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 12%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.3 hours on average. 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 60 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
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 1.89%
Whole route
73.2%
Every carrier on VPS to DFW, 1,331 flights
These figures cover 159 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on VPS to DFW
PSA flew 159 of the 1,331 flights on VPS to DFW, about 12% of it. Its 83.3% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.2%. 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 70.6%. 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.
| 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 | 152 | 80.7% | 102 min | 1.32% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,020 | 70.6% | 110 min | 2.65% | 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 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on VPS to DFW runs when it is late
PSA on VPS to DFW often beats the schedule: 60 of 150 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 25 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early60 flights40.0%
- Within 15 min65 flights43.3%
- 15–29 min late8 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late6 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late6 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 150 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 31 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on VPS to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 March 2026, 21 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 March 2026 | 21 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 December 2025 | 5 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 November 2025 | 4 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 February 2026 | 4 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 2 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 3,425 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,425 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. 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. It accounts for 1,901 of the 3,425 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 5.03%, against 1.89% 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 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last 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.
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.
Related
Where to go next
- VPS to DFW, every carrier
- PSA on DFW to VPS, the return leg
- Envoy Air on VPS to DFW80.7%
- American Airlines on VPS to DFW70.6%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.