Flight number record

MQ 4073

Envoy Air · Champaign to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: CMI → DFW
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 359
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s MQ 4073, 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 4073 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 20 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, MQ 4073's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 113 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights

Avg delay

112 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.95%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 359 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 20 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.

Schedule

When MQ 4073 flies

MQ 4073 flies CMI to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 96 of 359 flights, with 06:00 (78 flights) and 07:03 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:0096 flights26.7%
Departs 06:0078 flights21.7%
Departs 07:0337 flights10.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and MQ 4073 runs level with that at 88.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

MQ 4073 next to CMI to DFW

Every carrier on CMI to DFW combined arrived on time 86.1% of the time across 723 flights, so MQ 4073 is 3 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 80.2%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

MQ 4073 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MQ 4073thin sample	359	88.9%	112 min	1.95%	A
All Envoy Air on CMI–DFW	723	86.1%	101 min	2.07%	A
All carriers on CMI–DFW	723	86.1%	101 min	2.07%	A
Envoy Air, whole network	315,435	80.2%	67 min	2.30%	B

Across the year

MQ 4073 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter MQ 4073 held fairly steady: 89.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85.5% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights89.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.6%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights93.2%
Apr–Jun 202685 flights85.5%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, MQ 4073 ranged from 84.3% on Wednesday to 96.0% on Saturday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why MQ 4073 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 4,358 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
16%

Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,358 delay minutes reported on MQ 4073.

Cancellations sit at 1.95% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.8% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 692 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.

Every one of the 359 flights under MQ 4073 in the data flew CMI to DFW. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 359 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 4073

For a booking, read MQ 4073 as 88.9% on time with 1.95% cancelled over 359 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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