Carrier route record
MQBNA→DFW
Envoy Air · Nashville to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 212
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 6%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on BNA to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 212 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Envoy on BNA to DFW runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 209 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.42%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.9%
Every carrier on BNA to DFW, 3,527 flights
These figures cover 212 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% 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 BNA to DFW
Envoy flew 212 of the 3,527 flights on BNA to DFW, about 6% of it. Its 71.3% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 78.9% to PSA at 60.3%. Three 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 79 | 78.9% | 174 min | 3.80% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 25 | 77.3% | 87 min | 12.00% | B− |
| American Airlines | 3,131 | 75.3% | 94 min | 3.39% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 212 | 71.3% | 82 min | 1.42% | C |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 80 | 60.3% | 93 min | 7.50% | 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 23 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–8am4 flights—
- 8am–11am67 flights81.5%
- 11am–2pm28 flights—
- 2pm–5pm3 flights—
- 5pm–8pm76 flights58.7%
- 8pm–5am34 flights76.5%
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 58.7% on time, against 81.5% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 76 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on BNA to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202580 flights75.0%
- Oct–Dec 202531 flights74.2%
- Jan–Mar 202632 flights90.0%
- Apr–Jun 202669 flights57.4%
Scale runs 50% 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 71.3% on time across 212 flights.
Envoy on BNA to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 57.4%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 53 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 80.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.4%. 9 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 54% of the 4,904 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.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%National Airspace System
- 8%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
54% 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 4,904 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 54 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 4,904 reported delay minutes.
38% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,853 minutes out of 4,904, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 1.42% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 11.5% 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.
The 631 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.2% on time across 214 flights, 9 points above 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 212 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 BNA to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 212 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 71.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 209 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to BNA, the return leg
- American Airlines on BNA to DFW75.3%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.