Flight number record

MQ 4260

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Asheville

Route: DFW → AVL
Departs: 19:51
Flights: 256
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 256 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

On time

81.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights

Avg delay

77 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.78%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 256 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 256 flights, with 19:20 (44 flights) and 19:26 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:5154 flights21.1%
Departs 19:2044 flights17.2%
Departs 19:2635 flights13.7%

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 19:51 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and MQ 4260 runs 13 points better at 81.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

MQ 4260 next to DFW to AVL

Every carrier on DFW to AVL combined arrived on time 70.7% of the time across 725 flights, so MQ 4260 is 11 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 80.2%, close to this flight's figure.

MQ 4260 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MQ 4260thin sample	256	81.4%	77 min	0.78%	B+
All Envoy Air on DFW–AVLthin sample	275	81.2%	77 min	0.73%	B+
All carriers on DFW–AVL	725	70.7%	85 min	2.48%	C
Envoy Air, whole network	315,435	80.2%	67 min	2.30%	B

Across the year

MQ 4260 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter MQ 4260 held fairly steady: 79.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 79.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202564 flights79.0%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights80.0%
Jan–Mar 202652 flights88.5%
Apr–Jun 202650 flights79.6%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, MQ 4260 did best on Tuesday at 91.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 74.3%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 3,628 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
36%
National Airspace System
29%
Extreme weather
17%
Carrier
17%

Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,628 delay minutes reported on MQ 4260.

Cancellations are rare at 0.78%, below the national 1.81% 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

5.5% 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 a little over 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. 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 256 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. 256 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 81.4% on time with 0.78% cancelled over 256 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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