Carrier route record

MQDFW→AUS

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Austin

Flights: 688
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 15%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on DFW to AUS lands a B−, about a point 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 about 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 688 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

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

On time

78.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 660 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.92%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

67.7%

Every carrier on DFW to AUS, 4,741 flights

These figures cover 688 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 AUS

Envoy flew 688 of the 4,741 flights on DFW to AUS, about 15% of it. Its 78.5% on time is 11 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 78.5% to American at 64.7%. Two 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 AUS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	688	78.5%	49 min	3.92%	B−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	108	75.0%	80 min	7.41%	B−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	354	74.8%	68 min	2.26%	C
American Airlines	3,591	64.7%	74 min	3.54%	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 22 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–8am163 flights85.7%
8am–11am53 flights88.5%
11am–2pm85 flights90.2%
2pm–5pm209 flights73.6%
5pm–8pm178 flights68.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 90.2% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 68.5%. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 209 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to AUS through the year

Jul–Sep 2025339 flights78.7%
Oct–Dec 202575 flights79.2%
Jan–Mar 202668 flights85.9%
Apr–Jun 2026206 flights75.5%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 78.5% on time across 688 flights.

Envoy on DFW to AUS did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 85.9% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 75.5%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 172 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 85.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 67.0%. 18 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 6,996 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
39%
National Airspace System
31%
Carrier
21%
Extreme weather
8%

39% 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 6,996 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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. The split is drawn from 6,996 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 3.92%, 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

5.5% 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 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 190 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 77.2% on time across 688 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. 688 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 AUS

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.92% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 50 minutes; 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. 660 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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