Carrier route record

MQDFW→ABQ

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque

Flights: 498
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 22%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on DFW to ABQ 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 roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 498 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to ABQ 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.

On time

82.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 489 completed flights

Avg delay

51 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.41%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

69.0%

Every carrier on DFW to ABQ, 2,266 flights

These figures cover 498 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 DFW to ABQ

Envoy flew 498 of the 2,266 flights on DFW to ABQ, about 22% of it. Its 82.0% on time is 13 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.0% to American at 65.0%. 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)	498	82.0%	51 min	1.41%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	51	78.0%	47 min	1.96%	B
American Airlines	1,717	65.0%	70 min	2.85%	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 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am—
8am–11am183 flights87.6%
11am–2pm118 flights86.3%
2pm–5pm147 flights74.3%
5pm–8pm50 flights74.0%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.6% of the time, against 74.0% for the evening window. That is 14 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 183 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to ABQ through the year

Jul–Sep 202570 flights71.4%
Oct–Dec 202569 flights84.1%
Jan–Mar 202651 flights91.5%
Apr–Jun 2026106 flights75.2%
Jul–Sep 2026202 flights86.1%

Scale runs 65% to 95%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 82.0% on time across 498 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 Jul–Sep 2025 at 71.4%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 100 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, Friday is the strongest day at 88.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 77.0%, a spread of 11 points.

Arrival by arrival

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

Envoy on DFW to ABQ often beats the schedule: 156 of 489 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 88 late arrivals split 38 under half an hour, 32 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.

15+ min early156 flights31.9%
Within 15 min245 flights50.1%
15–29 min late38 flights7.8%
30–59 min late32 flights6.5%
1–2 hours late9 flights1.8%
2+ hours late9 flights1.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 489 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

19 of 90 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on DFW to ABQ

The latest arrival of the period was on 19 September 2025, 4 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on DFW to ABQ in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
19 September 2025	4 hours 59 minutes	National Airspace System
19 June 2026	4 hours 59 minutes	National Airspace System
12 July 2026	4 hours 44 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
19 September 2025	3 hours 6 minutes	National Airspace System
13 July 2026	2 hours 36 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 4,521 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
44%
National Airspace System
34%
Carrier
17%
Extreme weather
5%

44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,521 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 4,521 reported delay minutes.

34% 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 1,530 minutes out of 4,521, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations sit at 1.41% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.40%.

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 8.3% 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 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.

The return leg runs 80.8% on time across 499 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. 498 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. 498 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. 489 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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