Carrier route record

MQDFW→ABQ

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque

Flights: 465
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 20%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on DFW to ABQ lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 465 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to ABQ from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

80.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 454 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.94%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

67.0%

Every carrier on DFW to ABQ, 2,290 flights

These figures cover 465 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 DFW to ABQ

Envoy flew 465 of the 2,290 flights on DFW to ABQ, about 20% of it. Its 80.0% on time is 13 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.0% to American at 63.3%. 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 DFW to ABQ
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	465	80.0%	48 min	1.94%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	51	78.0%	47 min	1.96%	B
American Airlines	1,774	63.3%	71 min	3.49%	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 15 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–8am—
8am–11am169 flights86.6%
11am–2pm125 flights82.8%
2pm–5pm105 flights71.6%
5pm–8pm66 flights71.2%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 86.6% of the time, against 71.2% for the evening window. That is 15 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 169 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to ABQ through the year

Jul–Sep 2025239 flights78.5%
Oct–Dec 202569 flights84.1%
Jan–Mar 202651 flights91.5%
Apr–Jun 2026106 flights75.2%

Scale runs 65% 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 80.0% on time across 465 flights.

Envoy on DFW to ABQ did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 91.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 75.2%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 116 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 72.3%. 16 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. National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 4,360 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.

National Airspace System
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
Carrier
16%
Extreme weather
6%

44% 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 1,939 minutes out of 4,360, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,360 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 86.6% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.94% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.43%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 569 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 77.3% on time across 466 flights, within 3 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. 465 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 DFW to ABQ

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 465 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 80.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 454 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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