Route reliability record
CRP→DFW
Corpus Christi to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 2,545
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 355 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route 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 an hour and a half on average. That rests on 2,545 CRP to DFW flights, of which Envoy Air flew 1,863 at 85.3% on time.
Best time to fly CRP to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Friday. Flights in that window arrived on time 87.7% of the time and Friday flights 87.0%, against 82.6% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 53 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,471 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.71%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
85.3% on time across 1,863 flights
These figures cover 2,545 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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
Which airline is most reliable on CRP to DFW
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 85.3% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 75.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 404 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,863 | 85.3% | 74 min | 1.88% | A |
| PSA Airlines | 404 | 75.7% | 132 min | 4.95% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 278 | 74.1% | 88 min | 5.04% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 5.0% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on CRP to DFW
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Corpus Christi to Dallas-Fort Worth
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. CRP → DFWCorpus Christi to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 83.7% | 85.3% | 1.88% | 8am–11am, Fri | MQ 4168 07:10 |
| 2. CRP → DFWCorpus Christi to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 72.0% | 75.7% | 4.95% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 13 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am702 flights87.7%
- 8am–11am432 flights86.6%
- 11am–2pm329 flights85.4%
- 2pm–5pm529 flights74.6%
- 5pm–8pm342 flights77.9%
- 8pm–5am211 flights80.7%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.7% of the time, against 74.6% for the afternoon 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 702 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter CRP to DFW by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On CRP to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 87.7% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 74.6%, a wide gap of 13.1 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am87.7%
- 8–11am86.6%
- 11am–2pm85.4%
- 2–5pm74.6%
- 5–8pm77.9%
- 8pm–5am80.7%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 16 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 74.8% on time, 16 points below August, 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. July was the busiest month here, with 261 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 87.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 78.3%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
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 38,000 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 25%Extreme weather
- 11%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 25% 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 4.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 38,135 reported delay minutes.
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 38,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.71%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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 actually costs
7.4% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 355 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 81.4% on time across 2,545 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.
The sample behind these figures is 2,545 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. August runs 91.2% on time and June 74.8%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 2,471 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CRP to DFW questions
How often is CRP to DFW delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 17.4% of the 2,545 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on CRP to DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 85.3% on time across 1,863 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 75.7%, a gap of 10 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on CRP to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 87.7% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 74.6%, 13 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on CRP to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 74.8% on time, compared with 91.2% in August. Across the year that is 16 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to CRP — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on CRP to DFW85.3%
- PSA Airlines on CRP to DFW75.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on CRP to DFW74.1%
- CRP to HOU, a related route86.9%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- ATL to DFW, a related route73.9%
- Envoy Air on-time record85.3%
- PSA Airlines on-time record75.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record74.1%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. CRP to DFW and DFW to CRP are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.