Carrier route record

MQDFW→CAE

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Columbia

Flights: 603
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 61%
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 CAE lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six 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 603 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to CAE record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 49 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 588 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.32%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.1%

Every carrier on DFW to CAE, 985 flights

These figures cover 603 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on DFW to CAE

Envoy flew 603 of the 985 flights on DFW to CAE, most of the route. Its 82.5% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.5% to PSA at 76.2%.

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 CAE
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	603	82.5%	49 min	2.32%	B
PSA Airlines	382	76.2%	68 min	3.93%	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 19 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–11am43 flights95.3%
11am–2pm192 flights86.6%
2pm–5pm179 flights76.1%
5pm–8pm35 flights83.9%
8pm–5am154 flights80.9%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 95.3% of the time, against 76.1% for the afternoon window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 192 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to CAE through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.November best, June worst

June is the worst month at 72.9% on time, 20 points below November, the best at 92.5%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.8%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 5,092 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
47%
National Airspace System
24%
Carrier
19%
Extreme weather
10%

47% 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 5,092 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 5,092 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 95.3% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 2.32% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 922 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 80.6% on time across 602 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. 603 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 CAE

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 603 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 82.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 588 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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