Flight number record
MQ 4260
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Asheville
- Route
- DFW → AVL
- Departs
- 19:51
- Flights
- 280
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s MQ 4260, 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 4260 lands a B+, 5 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 an hour on average. That rests on 280 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, MQ 4260's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 46 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 277 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.36%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 280 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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Schedule
When MQ 4260 flies
MQ 4260 flies DFW to AVL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:51, used on 54 of 280 flights, with 19:20 (44 flights) and 19:05 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 19:5154 flights19.3%
- Departs 19:2044 flights15.7%
- Departs 19:0533 flights11.8%
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 19:51 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and MQ 4260 runs 14 points better at 81.9%. 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 4260 next to DFW to AVL
Every carrier on DFW to AVL combined arrived on time 71.1% of the time across 718 flights, so MQ 4260 is 11 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 81.0%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQ 4260thin sample | 280 | 81.9% | 67 min | 0.36% | B+ |
| All Envoy Air on DFW–AVLthin sample | 283 | 81.8% | 67 min | 0.35% | B+ |
| All carriers on DFW–AVL | 718 | 71.1% | 78 min | 1.95% | C |
| Envoy Air, whole network | 320,362 | 81.0% | 70 min | 2.19% | B |
Across the year
MQ 4260 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter MQ 4260 held fairly steady: 80.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 79.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 79.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202528 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights80.0%
- Jan–Mar 202652 flights88.5%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights79.6%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights79.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, MQ 4260 did best on Tuesday at 89.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 76.3%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late MQ 4260 runs when it is late
MQ 4260 often beats the schedule: 104 of 277 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 50 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights37.5%
- Within 15 min123 flights44.4%
- 15–29 min late20 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 277 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for MQ 4260
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 September 2025, 13 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across September, August, March, October and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2025 | 13 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 25 August 2026 | 3 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 March 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 October 2025 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 July 2026 | 2 hours 26 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why MQ 4260 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 3,335 reported delay minutes.
- 34%National Airspace System
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 13%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,335 delay minutes reported on MQ 4260.
Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.4% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 848 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.
Every one of the 280 flights under MQ 4260 in the data flew DFW to AVL. 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. 280 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 4260
For a booking, read MQ 4260 as 81.9% on time with 0.36% cancelled over 280 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to AVL, every carrier and departure
- AVL 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
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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.