Carrier route record
MQDFW→CAE
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Columbia
- Flights
- 636
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 65%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to CAE lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 636 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to CAE record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 56 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 621 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.20%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on DFW to CAE, 983 flights
These figures cover 636 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DFW to CAE
Envoy flew 636 of the 983 flights on DFW to CAE, most of the route. Its 82.9% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.9% to American at 33.3%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 636 | 82.9% | 52 min | 2.20% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 320 | 80.9% | 67 min | 3.12% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 27 | 33.3% | 110 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am43 flights95.3%
- 11am–2pm192 flights86.6%
- 2pm–5pm178 flights80.6%
- 5pm–8pm35 flights83.9%
- 8pm–5am188 flights78.5%
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 78.5% for the overnight window. That is 17 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
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, Thursday is the strongest day at 89.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.9%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DFW to CAE runs when it is late
Envoy on DFW to CAE often beats the schedule: 208 of 621 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 106 late arrivals split 48 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early208 flights33.5%
- Within 15 min307 flights49.4%
- 15–29 min late48 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late36 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late10 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 621 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
31 of 112 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. 25 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DFW to CAE
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 June 2026, 3 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 June 2026 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 March 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 May 2026 | 3 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 July 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 July 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 5,495 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,495 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 5,495 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 2.20% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.16%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
The return leg runs 82.0% on time across 636 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. 636 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. 636 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 82.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 621 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to CAE, every carrier
- Envoy on CAE to DFW, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DFW to CAE80.9%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.