Flight number record
MQ 3537
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Fort Smith
- Route
- DFW → FSM
- Departs
- 22:49
- Flights
- 286
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s MQ 3537, check with Envoy Air. Envoy Air flies under contract for larger airlines, so a ticket for this flight may show a different airline code and number.
MQ 3537 earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, MQ 3537's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 75 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 277 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.15%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 286 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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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Schedule
When MQ 3537 flies
MQ 3537 flies DFW to FSM without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:49, used on 73 of 286 flights, with 21:10 (37 flights) and 22:40 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 22:4973 flights25.5%
- Departs 21:1037 flights12.9%
- Departs 22:4037 flights12.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 22:49 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and MQ 3537 runs 15 points better at 84.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
MQ 3537 next to DFW to FSM
Every carrier on DFW to FSM combined arrived on time 84.3% of the time across 1,194 flights, so MQ 3537 is about level with it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 81.0%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQ 3537thin sample | 286 | 84.8% | 75 min | 3.15% | B− |
| All Envoy Air on DFW–FSM | 1,194 | 84.3% | 63 min | 2.60% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–FSM | 1,194 | 84.3% | 63 min | 2.60% | B |
| Envoy Air, whole network | 320,362 | 81.0% | 70 min | 2.19% | B |
Across the year
MQ 3537 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter MQ 3537 held fairly steady: 88.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 80.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 81.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202561 flights88.1%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights85.7%
- Apr–Jun 202647 flights80.0%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights81.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, MQ 3537 did best on Wednesday at 94.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late MQ 3537 runs when it is late
The 42 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early61 flights22.0%
- Within 15 min174 flights62.8%
- 15–29 min late14 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights5.8%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 277 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 46 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for MQ 3537
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 May 2026, 10 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across May, September, January, June and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2026 | 10 hours 13 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 September 2025 | 3 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 January 2026 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 July 2026 | 1 hour 57 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why MQ 3537 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,127 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Extreme weather
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 34% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 5.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,127 delay minutes reported on MQ 3537.
Cancellations run at 3.15%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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 routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.2% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including DFW to COU (44), COU to DFW (44) and AMA to DFW (27), but none flew often enough under MQ 3537 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to FSM only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 286 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 MQ 3537
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on MQ 3537: 3.15% of its 286 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to FSM, every carrier and departure
- FSM to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on-time record
- Every Envoy Air flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
A flight number here means Envoy Air’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
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.