Flight number record
MQ 4261
Envoy Air · Asheville to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- AVL → DFW
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 282
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.3 hours on average. That rests on 282 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 62 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 279 completed flights
Avg delay
141 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.35%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 282 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 4261 flies
MQ 4261 flies AVL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 139 of 282 flights, with 07:01 (66 flights) and 07:14 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00139 flights49.3%
- Departs 07:0166 flights23.4%
- Departs 07:1453 flights18.8%
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 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 6 points worse at 83.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
MQ 4261 next to AVL to DFW
Every carrier on AVL to DFW combined arrived on time 70.9% of the time across 719 flights, so MQ 4261 is 13 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Envoy Air managed 81.0%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQ 4261thin sample | 282 | 83.5% | 141 min | 0.35% | B+ |
| All Envoy Air on AVL–DFWthin sample | 285 | 83.0% | 138 min | 0.35% | B+ |
| All carriers on AVL–DFW | 719 | 70.9% | 106 min | 1.95% | C |
| Envoy Air, whole network | 320,362 | 81.0% | 70 min | 2.19% | B |
Across the year
MQ 4261 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter MQ 4261 held fairly steady: 82.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 84.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 85.0% in Jul–Sep 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 202527 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights82.4%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights92.3%
- Apr–Jun 202651 flights84.0%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights85.0%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, MQ 4261 did best on Wednesday at 91.9% on time and worst on Monday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late MQ 4261 runs when it is late
MQ 4261 often beats the schedule: 113 of 279 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 46 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early113 flights40.5%
- Within 15 min120 flights43.0%
- 15–29 min late13 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late12 flights4.3%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late12 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 279 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 40 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 14 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for MQ 4261
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 September 2025, 15 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2025 | 15 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 15 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 October 2025 | 10 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 November 2025 | 7 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 August 2026 | 7 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why MQ 4261 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 6,478 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,478 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 6,478 delay minutes reported on MQ 4261.
Cancellations are rare at 0.35%, 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
7.5% 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 2.3 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.
Every one of the 282 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. 282 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 83.5% on time with 0.35% cancelled over 282 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- AVL to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to AVL, 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.