Carrier route record

MQAUS→DFW

Envoy Air · Austin to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 688
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 15%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on AUS 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 close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 688 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 AUS to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

77.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 661 completed flights

Avg delay

103 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.92%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

73.8%

Every carrier on AUS to DFW, 4,742 flights

These figures cover 688 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on AUS to DFW

Envoy flew 688 of the 4,742 flights on AUS to DFW, about 15% of it. Its 77.2% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 77.2% to SkyWest at 64.2%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on AUS to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	688	77.2%	103 min	3.92%	B−
American Airlines	3,591	74.3%	113 min	3.76%	C−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	108	66.7%	78 min	8.33%	C−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	354	64.2%	136 min	3.39%	D−

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 15 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–8am—
8am–11am206 flights80.3%
11am–2pm19 flights—
2pm–5pm138 flights84.2%
5pm–8pm270 flights72.5%
8pm–5am55 flights69.2%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 84.2% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 69.2%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 270 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on AUS to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025339 flights74.5%
Oct–Dec 202575 flights83.3%
Jan–Mar 202668 flights89.1%
Apr–Jun 2026206 flights75.5%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. 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 77.2% on time across 688 flights.

Envoy on AUS to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 89.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 74.5%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 172 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 84.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.0%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

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 16,000 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
37%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
11%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 5,767 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 15,571 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 3.92%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 190 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 78.5% on time across 688 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.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 688 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 AUS to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.92% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 661 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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