Carrier route record
MQCAE→DFW
Envoy Air · Columbia to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 636
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 65%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on CAE to DFW lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 636 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's CAE to DFW record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 616 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.36%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.4%
Every carrier on CAE to DFW, 983 flights
These figures cover 636 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 CAE to DFW
Envoy flew 636 of the 983 flights on CAE to DFW, most of the route. Its 82.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 92.3% to Envoy at 82.0%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 26 | 92.3% | 20 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 321 | 82.3% | 114 min | 3.12% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 636 | 82.0% | 64 min | 2.36% | B |
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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 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am227 flights87.6%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm43 flights85.7%
- 2pm–5pm155 flights82.1%
- 5pm–8pm203 flights74.2%
- 8pm–5am8 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.6% of the time, against 74.2% for the evening window. That is 13 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 227 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on CAE to DFW through the year
June is the worst month at 71.9% on time, 19 points below February, the best at 91.2%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 87.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 77.8%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on CAE to DFW runs when it is late
Envoy on CAE to DFW often beats the schedule: 309 of 616 completed flights, 50%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 111 late arrivals split 43 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 32 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early309 flights50.2%
- Within 15 min196 flights31.8%
- 15–29 min late43 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late36 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late8 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 616 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 119 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 19 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on CAE to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 July 2026, 13 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 July 2026 | 13 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 June 2026 | 7 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 July 2026 | 4 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 May 2026 | 4 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 July 2026 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 7,145 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,040 of the 7,145 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,145 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 87.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.36% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.79%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.2% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 922 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.
The return leg runs 82.9% on time across 636 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. 636 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 CAE to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 636 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 82.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 616 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.