Carrier route record

OHXNA→DFW

PSA Airlines · Bentonville to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 333
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 9%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on XNA to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 333 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 2,435 at 81.0% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on XNA to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

75.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 317 completed flights

Avg delay

80 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.80%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.7%

Every carrier on XNA to DFW, 3,527 flights

These figures cover 333 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.9% 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 XNA to DFW

PSA flew 333 of the 3,527 flights on XNA to DFW, about 9% of it. Its 75.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 82.0% to American at 71.8%. 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 81.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 71.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 696 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on XNA to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	63	82.0%	70 min	3.17%	B−
Envoy Air	2,435	81.0%	78 min	1.93%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)thin sample	333	75.7%	80 min	4.80%	B−
American Airlines	696	71.8%	127 min	4.45%	C−

American Airlines cancels 4.5% 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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against 9 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am10 flights—
8am–11am161 flights78.8%
11am–2pm24 flights—
2pm–5pm72 flights77.6%
5pm–8pm66 flights60.7%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.7% on time, against 78.8% for the 8am–11am 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 161 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on XNA to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025114 flights78.2%
Oct–Dec 202545 flights69.8%
Jan–Mar 2026115 flights72.0%
Apr–Jun 202659 flights82.5%

Scale runs 60% 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 75.7% on time across 333 flights.

PSA on XNA to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 82.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 69.8%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 83 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.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.7% on time and Monday the weakest at 66.7%. 19 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 71% of the 6,190 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
71%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
9%
Carrier
5%

71% 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 6,190 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 6,190 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 78.8% on time here.

Cancellations run at 4.80%, 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.9% 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 280 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 78.2% on time across 332 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 333 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 XNA to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.80% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 317 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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