Carrier route record
MQAMA→DFW
Envoy Air · Amarillo to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,970
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 83%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on AMA 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 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 1,970 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's AMA to DFW record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,916 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.34%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
84.7%
Every carrier on AMA to DFW, 2,370 flights
These figures cover 1,970 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on AMA to DFW
Envoy flew 1,970 of the 2,370 flights on AMA to DFW, most of the route. Its 85.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.0% to SkyWest at 82.7%. Two 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,970 | 85.0% | 71 min | 2.34% | A |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 118 | 84.2% | 182 min | 3.39% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 282 | 82.7% | 121 min | 1.42% | B |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on AMA to DFW
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 14 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–8am488 flights91.7%
- 8am–11am340 flights90.3%
- 11am–2pm312 flights86.5%
- 2pm–5pm408 flights77.9%
- 5pm–8pm323 flights78.5%
- 8pm–5am99 flights78.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.7% of the time, against 77.9% for the afternoon window. That is 14 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 488 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on AMA to DFW through the year
August is the worst month at 77.4% on time, 15 points below February, the best at 92.8%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. August was the busiest month here, with 215 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 81.2%. 6 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 51% of the 20,000 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.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Extreme weather
- 15%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 20,376 reported delay minutes.
51% 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 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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 2.34% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.41%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.3% 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.
At 312 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 runs 84.0% on time across 1,970 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,970 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking Envoy on AMA to DFW
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 92.8% on time and August 77.4%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,916 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- AMA to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to AMA, the return leg
- American Airlines on AMA to DFW84.2%
- SkyWest Airlines on AMA to DFW82.7%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.