Carrier route record
MQDFW→AEX
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Alexandria
- Flights
- 721
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 69%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to AEX earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 721 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to AEX record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 691 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.74%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
84.1%
Every carrier on DFW to AEX, 1,045 flights
These figures cover 721 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 AEX
Envoy flew 721 of the 1,045 flights on DFW to AEX, most of the route. Its 84.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.8% to SkyWest at 82.4%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 721 | 84.8% | 58 min | 3.74% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 324 | 82.4% | 75 min | 5.25% | B− |
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 16 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–11am263 flights87.6%
- 11am–2pm37 flights97.1%
- 2pm–5pm204 flights82.8%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am217 flights81.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 97.1% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 81.2%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 263 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to AEX through the year
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 78.7%. February is the strongest month at 94.3%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 16 points. March was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 90.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 81.2%. 9 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
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 6,099 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Extreme weather
- 20%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,099 reported delay minutes.
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,099 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.
Cancellations run at 3.74%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
5.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 285 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 84.1% on time across 721 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. 721 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 AEX
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.74% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 691 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.