Carrier route record

MQDFW→CID

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Cedar Rapids

Flights: 572
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 48%
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 CID earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 572 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to CID record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 564 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.40%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

74.9%

Every carrier on DFW to CID, 1,190 flights

These figures cover 572 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 CID

Envoy flew 572 of the 1,190 flights on DFW to CID, about 48% of it. Its 85.1% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.1% to American at 62.8%. 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 CID
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	572	85.1%	65 min	1.40%	A
PSA Airlinesthin sample	92	78.7%	70 min	2.17%	B
American Airlines	526	62.8%	77 min	3.61%	D−

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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 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am50 flights92.0%
8am–11am31 flights93.5%
11am–2pm11 flights—
2pm–5pm227 flights86.5%
5pm–8pm27 flights—
8pm–5am226 flights80.7%

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 93.5% of the time, against 80.7% for the overnight window. That is 13 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 227 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to CID through the year

Jul–Sep 202581 flights87.5%
Oct–Dec 2025126 flights92.7%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
Apr–Jun 2026155 flights80.3%
Jul–Sep 2026205 flights82.9%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. 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 85.1% on time across 572 flights.

Envoy on DFW to CID did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 92.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 80.3%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 143 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 92.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.1%, a spread of 20 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Envoy on DFW to CID runs when it is late

Envoy on DFW to CID often beats the schedule: 188 of 564 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 84 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 30 an hour or more.

15+ min early188 flights33.3%
Within 15 min292 flights51.8%
15–29 min late28 flights5.0%
30–59 min late26 flights4.6%
1–2 hours late20 flights3.5%
2+ hours late10 flights1.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 564 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

25 of 98 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. Only 11 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on DFW to CID

The latest arrival of the period was on 11 July 2026, 8 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on DFW to CID in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
11 July 2026	8 hours 54 minutes	Carrier
19 June 2026	4 hours 43 minutes	National Airspace System
21 September 2025	3 hours 57 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
12 July 2026	3 hours 25 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
12 July 2026	3 hours 16 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 5,486 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
54%
National Airspace System
20%
Carrier
17%
Extreme weather
8%
Security
1%

54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,486 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 5,486 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 93.5% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.40% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 685 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 85.8% on time across 573 flights, within half 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. 572 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 CID

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 572 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 85.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 564 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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