Carrier route record

MQABQ→DFW

Envoy Air · Albuquerque to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 466
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 20%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on ABQ to DFW lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 466 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ABQ to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

77.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 453 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.15%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.3%

Every carrier on ABQ to DFW, 2,293 flights

These figures cover 466 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on ABQ to DFW

Envoy flew 466 of the 2,293 flights on ABQ to DFW, about 20% of it. Its 77.3% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 79.9% to SkyWest at 76.5%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

On-time performance by carrier on ABQ to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines	1,775	79.9%	109 min	3.38%	B−
Envoy Air (this page)	466	77.3%	65 min	2.15%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	52	76.5%	55 min	1.92%	B

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am1 flights—
8am–11am51 flights91.7%
11am–2pm159 flights81.3%
2pm–5pm117 flights77.2%
5pm–8pm138 flights67.4%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.7% of the time, against 67.4% for the evening window. That is 24 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 159 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on ABQ to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025239 flights73.5%
Oct–Dec 202569 flights88.2%
Jan–Mar 202651 flights93.6%
Apr–Jun 2026107 flights71.2%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 77.3% on time across 466 flights.

Envoy on ABQ to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 93.6% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 71.2%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 117 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.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.2%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 6,707 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
53%
National Airspace System
27%
Extreme weather
12%
Carrier
7%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,707 reported delay minutes.

53% 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 6,707 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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.

Cancellations sit at 2.15% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.64%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.7% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 569 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.

The return leg runs 80.0% on time across 465 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 466 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 Envoy on ABQ to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 466 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 77.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 453 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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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