Carrier route record

MQAVL→DFW

Envoy Air · Asheville to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 277
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 38%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on AVL to DFW lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.2 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's AVL to DFW record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 56 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 273 completed flights

Avg delay

133 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.72%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

71.2%

Every carrier on AVL to DFW, 726 flights

These figures cover 277 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on AVL to DFW

Envoy flew 277 of the 726 flights on AVL to DFW, about 38% of it. Its 83.2% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 71.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 100.0% to American at 62.0%. 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 AVL to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlinesthin sample	19	100.0%	—	5.26%	A−
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	277	83.2%	133 min	0.72%	B+
American Airlines	430	62.0%	99 min	3.72%	D−

Flight by flight

Envoy flight numbers on AVL to DFW

MQ 426107:0083.9% · 258 flights

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 277 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's AVL to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 83.2% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Envoy on AVL to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202582 flights77.5%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights82.4%
Jan–Mar 202653 flights92.3%
Apr–Jun 202651 flights84.0%

Scale runs 70% 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 83.2% on time across 277 flights.

Envoy on AVL to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 92.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 77.5%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 69 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 94.3% on time and Monday the weakest at 72.5%. 22 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. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 6,115 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.

Carrier
46%
Late-arriving aircraft
37%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
1%

37% 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 6,115 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 25 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. The split is drawn from 6,115 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, 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 2,798 of the 6,115 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.72%, below the national 1.81% 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 stage length

What a delay here costs

7.3% 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 about 2.2 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. 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 81.2% on time across 275 flights, within 2 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. 277 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 AVL to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 277 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 83.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 273 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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