Carrier route record
MQDFW→ACT
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Waco
- Flights
- 615
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 57%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to ACT 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 615 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to ACT record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 49 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 596 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.09%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.0%
Every carrier on DFW to ACT, 1,072 flights
These figures cover 615 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 ACT
Envoy flew 615 of the 1,072 flights on DFW to ACT, most of the route. Its 82.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 82.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.2% to SkyWest at 81.7%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 615 | 82.2% | 58 min | 3.09% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 457 | 81.7% | 99 min | 4.60% | 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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am193 flights90.1%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm104 flights75.5%
- 5pm–8pm61 flights73.3%
- 8pm–5am257 flights81.3%
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 90.1% of the time, against 73.3% for the evening window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 257 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to ACT through the year
June is the worst month at 70.2% on time, 24 points below February, the best at 94.4%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 86.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 77.5%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DFW to ACT runs when it is late
Envoy on DFW to ACT often beats the schedule: 186 of 596 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 106 late arrivals split 40 under half an hour, 33 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 33 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early186 flights31.2%
- Within 15 min304 flights51.0%
- 15–29 min late40 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late33 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late10 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 596 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 110 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DFW to ACT
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 September 2025, 10 hours 6 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.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2025 | 10 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 July 2026 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 October 2025 | 2 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 March 2026 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 September 2025 | 2 hours 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 6,178 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,178 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 6,178 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 90.1% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.09%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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 costs
5.5% 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.
At 90 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.9% on time across 615 flights, 4 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 615 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 ACT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.09% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 596 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.