Carrier route record

MQDFW→CHA

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Chattanooga

Flights: 235
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 14%
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 CHA 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 roughly 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 235 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to CHA record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 230 completed flights

Avg delay

46 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.13%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

72.9%

Every carrier on DFW to CHA, 1,643 flights

These figures cover 235 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 CHA

Envoy flew 235 of the 1,643 flights on DFW to CHA, about 14% of it. Its 82.6% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.6% to American at 40.0%. 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 CHA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	235	82.6%	46 min	2.13%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	96	77.1%	51 min	0.00%	B+
PSA Airlines	1,242	72.5%	91 min	3.22%	C−
American Airlinesthin sample	70	40.0%	94 min	7.14%	F−

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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am153 flights87.2%
11am–2pm21 flights—
2pm–5pm8 flights—
5pm–8pm18 flights—
8pm–5am35 flights70.6%

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

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.2% of the time, against 70.6% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 153 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to CHA through the year

Jul–Sep 2025113 flights77.7%
Oct–Dec 202518 flights—
Jan–Mar 202650 flights83.0%
Apr–Jun 202654 flights86.8%

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 82.6% on time across 235 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on DFW to CHA held fairly steady: 77.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 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 92.3% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 72.2%. 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 1,853 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
26%
Carrier
23%
Extreme weather
13%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,853 reported delay minutes.

38% 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 1,853 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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 sit at 2.13% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.0% 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 695 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 84.3% on time across 236 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. 235 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 CHA

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 235 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 82.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 230 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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