Carrier route record

MQDFW→CID

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Cedar Rapids

Flights: 536
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 46%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on DFW to CID earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 536 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to CID record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 525 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.87%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

74.1%

Every carrier on DFW to CID, 1,174 flights

These figures cover 536 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 CID

Envoy flew 536 of the 1,174 flights on DFW to CID, about 46% of it. Its 84.2% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.2% to American at 62.1%. 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)	536	84.2%	64 min	1.87%	B
PSA Airlinesthin sample	151	76.0%	79 min	2.65%	B
American Airlines	487	62.1%	79 min	3.90%	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 25 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–8am58 flights91.4%
8am–11am4 flights—
11am–2pm11 flights—
2pm–5pm227 flights87.0%
5pm–8pm35 flights66.7%
8pm–5am201 flights81.2%

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

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.4% of the time, against 66.7% for the evening window. That is 25 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 2025250 flights82.1%
Oct–Dec 2025126 flights92.7%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
Apr–Jun 2026155 flights80.3%

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 84.2% on time across 536 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 179 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 89.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 77.6%. 12 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 48% of the 5,279 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
48%
National Airspace System
22%
Carrier
16%
Extreme weather
14%
Security
1%

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 5,279 reported delay minutes.

48% 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 5,279 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 1.87% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.19%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.5% 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 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. 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 84.4% on time across 537 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. 536 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. 536 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 84.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 525 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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