Flight number record

MQ 4261

Envoy Air · Asheville to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: AVL → DFW
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 258
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s MQ 4261, 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 4261 lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.4 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 258 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, MQ 4261's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 255 completed flights

Avg delay

144 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.39%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 258 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 4261 flies

MQ 4261 flies AVL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 113 of 258 flights, with 07:14 (53 flights) and 06:44 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:00113 flights43.8%
Departs 07:1453 flights20.5%
Departs 06:4432 flights12.4%

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 4261 runs 5 points worse at 83.9%. 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 4261 next to AVL to DFW

Every carrier on AVL to DFW combined arrived on time 71.2% of the time across 726 flights, so MQ 4261 is 13 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 80.2%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

MQ 4261 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MQ 4261thin sample	258	83.9%	144 min	0.39%	B+
All Envoy Air on AVL–DFWthin sample	277	83.2%	133 min	0.72%	B+
All carriers on AVL–DFW	726	71.2%	107 min	2.62%	C
Envoy Air, whole network	315,435	80.2%	67 min	2.30%	B

Across the year

MQ 4261 quarter by quarter

MQ 4261 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 92.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 79.0%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 65 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.

Jul–Sep 202563 flights79.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights82.4%
Jan–Mar 202653 flights92.3%
Apr–Jun 202651 flights84.0%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, MQ 4261 did best on Thursday at 94.3% on time and worst on Monday at 72.2%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why MQ 4261 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 5,905 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.

Carrier
46%
Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
1%

38% 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 5,905 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 38 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 5,905 delay minutes reported on MQ 4261.

Cancellations are rare at 0.39%, 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

7.1% 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 about 2.4 hours, 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 258 flights under MQ 4261 in the data flew AVL 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. 258 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 4261

For a booking, read MQ 4261 as 83.9% on time with 0.39% cancelled over 258 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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