Carrier route record

MQCID→DFW

Envoy Air · Cedar Rapids to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 573
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 48%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on CID 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 573 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's CID to DFW record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 85 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 563 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.40%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

79.2%

Every carrier on CID to DFW, 1,190 flights

These figures cover 573 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 CID to DFW

Envoy flew 573 of the 1,190 flights on CID to DFW, about 48% of it. Its 85.8% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.8% to American at 71.5%. 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 CID to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	573	85.8%	83 min	1.40%	A
PSA Airlinesthin sample	91	81.6%	104 min	3.30%	B−
American Airlines	526	71.5%	170 min	3.61%	C−

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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 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am256 flights90.6%
8am–11am51 flights94.0%
11am–2pm35 flights79.4%
2pm–5pm6 flights—
5pm–8pm225 flights79.8%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 79.4% on time against 94.0% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 256 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on CID to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202581 flights87.5%
Oct–Dec 2025128 flights85.5%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
Apr–Jun 2026154 flights83.3%
Jul–Sep 2026205 flights87.3%

Scale runs 75% 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 85.8% on time across 573 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on CID to DFW held fairly steady: 87.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 87.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 91.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 79.0%, a spread of 12 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Envoy on CID to DFW runs when it is late

Envoy on CID to DFW often beats the schedule: 268 of 563 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 80 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.

15+ min early268 flights47.6%
Within 15 min215 flights38.2%
15–29 min late34 flights6.0%
30–59 min late19 flights3.4%
1–2 hours late15 flights2.7%
2+ hours late12 flights2.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 563 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

21 of 83 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 18 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on CID to DFW

The latest arrival of the period was on 20 November 2025, 15 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on CID to DFW in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
20 November 2025	15 hours 57 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
10 June 2026	11 hours 26 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
23 July 2026	10 hours 41 minutes	Carrier
12 July 2026	3 hours 48 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
5 September 2025	3 hours 37 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 6,624 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
45%
Carrier
25%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
13%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,624 reported delay minutes.

45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,624 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.

Cancellations sit at 1.40% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.35%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 685 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 85.1% on time across 572 flights, within half 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. 573 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 CID to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 573 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 85.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 563 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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