Carrier route record
MQACT→DFW
Envoy Air · Waco to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 615
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 57%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ACT to DFW earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 615 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's ACT to DFW record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 86 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 595 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.93%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
85.7%
Every carrier on ACT to DFW, 1,072 flights
These figures cover 615 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ACT to DFW
Envoy flew 615 of the 1,072 flights on ACT to DFW, most of the route. Its 85.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 85.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.9% to SkyWest at 85.5%.
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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 615 | 85.9% | 81 min | 2.93% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 457 | 85.5% | 112 min | 5.03% | A− |
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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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am259 flights93.7%
- 8am–11am158 flights86.1%
- 11am–2pm35 flights93.5%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm163 flights71.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.7% of the time, against 71.7% for the evening window. That is 22 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 259 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ACT to DFW through the year
December is the weak month at 74.2% on time, against 94.7% in April. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. March was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 91.6% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 81.4%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ACT to DFW runs when it is late
Envoy on ACT to DFW often beats the schedule: 209 of 595 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 84 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 37 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early209 flights35.1%
- Within 15 min302 flights50.8%
- 15–29 min late25 flights4.2%
- 30–59 min late22 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late20 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 595 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 84 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ACT to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 October 2025, 6 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across October, June, September and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 October 2025 | 6 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 5 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 October 2025 | 4 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 September 2025 | 4 hours 42 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 July 2026 | 4 hours 10 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 6,802 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 17%Extreme weather
- 15%National Airspace System
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 monthly strip above is 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 6,802 reported delay minutes.
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,802 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.93%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.2% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 90 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.2% on time across 615 flights, 4 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 615 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 ACT to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.93% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 595 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.