Carrier route record

MQDFW→AVL

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Asheville

Flights: 275
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 38%
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 AVL lands a B+, 4 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 a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 275 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

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

On time

81.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights

Avg delay

77 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.73%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

70.7%

Every carrier on DFW to AVL, 725 flights

These figures cover 275 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 AVL

Envoy flew 275 of the 725 flights on DFW to AVL, about 38% of it. Its 81.2% on time is 11 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.2% to American at 63.7%. 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 AVL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	275	81.2%	77 min	0.73%	B+
PSA Airlinesthin sample	19	72.2%	235 min	5.26%	C−
American Airlines	431	63.7%	83 min	3.48%	D−

Flight by flight

Envoy flight numbers on DFW to AVL

MQ 426019:5181.4% · 256 flights

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 10 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–11am—
11am–2pm4 flights—
2pm–5pm5 flights—
5pm–8pm212 flights78.9%
8pm–5am54 flights88.9%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 88.9% on time. The full set of windows spans 10 points.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to AVL through the year

Jul–Sep 202582 flights78.8%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights80.2%
Jan–Mar 202652 flights88.5%
Apr–Jun 202650 flights79.6%

Scale runs 70% 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 81.2% on time across 275 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on DFW to AVL held fairly steady: 78.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 79.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 92.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 73.0%. 20 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 3,937 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
National Airspace System
28%
Extreme weather
17%
Carrier
16%

Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,937 reported delay minutes.

40% 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 3,937 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 are rare at 0.73%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.9% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 848 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 83.2% on time across 277 flights, within 2 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. 275 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 AVL

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 275 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 81.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 272 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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