Carrier route record
MQDFW→BNA
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Nashville
- Flights
- 214
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 6%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to BNA lands a B+, 3 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 about 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 214 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to BNA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 212 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.93%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
67.2%
Every carrier on DFW to BNA, 3,529 flights
These figures cover 214 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DFW to BNA
Envoy flew 214 of the 3,529 flights on DFW to BNA, about 6% of it. Its 80.2% on time is 13 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 81.6% to PSA at 64.9%. Three 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 79 | 81.6% | 88 min | 3.80% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 214 | 80.2% | 55 min | 0.93% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 25 | 70.8% | 136 min | 4.00% | C− |
| American Airlines | 3,131 | 66.0% | 72 min | 3.26% | C− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 80 | 64.9% | 81 min | 7.50% | 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 12 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–8am142 flights83.6%
- 8am–11am29 flights—
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm2 flights—
- 5pm–8pm5 flights—
- 8pm–5am35 flights71.4%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 83.6% of the time, against 71.4% for the overnight window. That is 12 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 142 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to BNA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202581 flights82.7%
- Oct–Dec 202532 flights78.1%
- Jan–Mar 202633 flights80.6%
- Apr–Jun 202668 flights77.9%
Scale runs 70% 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 80.2% on time across 214 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on DFW to BNA held fairly steady: 82.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 77.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.4%. 15 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 2,294 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Carrier
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 14%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,294 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 891 of the 2,294 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 0.93% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.1% 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 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 631 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.3% on time across 212 flights, 9 points below 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 214 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 BNA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 214 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 80.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 212 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to BNA, every carrier
- Envoy on BNA to DFW, the return leg
- American Airlines on DFW to BNA66.0%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.