Carrier route record
MQDFW→CMH
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Columbus
- Flights
- 315
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 18%
- 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 CMH sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 315 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to CMH from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 314 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.32%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
70.3%
Every carrier on DFW to CMH, 1,729 flights
These figures cover 315 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 CMH
Envoy flew 315 of the 1,729 flights on DFW to CMH, about 18% of it. Its 74.8% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 100.0% to PSA at 20.0%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Linesthin sample | 1 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 315 | 74.8% | 64 min | 0.32% | C+ |
| American Airlines | 1,408 | 69.4% | 68 min | 2.84% | C |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 20.0% | 86 min | 0.00% | 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 16 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–11am5 flights—
- 11am–2pm60 flights88.3%
- 2pm–5pm5 flights—
- 5pm–8pm236 flights71.9%
- 8pm–5am9 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 88.3% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 71.9%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 236 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to CMH through the year
- Jul–Sep 202597 flights66.0%
- Oct–Dec 2025159 flights83.0%
- Jan–Mar 202618 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights61.0%
Scale runs 55% 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 74.8% on time across 315 flights.
Envoy on DFW to CMH did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 83.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 61.0%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 105 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 83.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.5%. 16 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 49% of the 5,080 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.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
49% 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 5,080 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 5,080 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.32%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.6% 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 926 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.6% on time across 315 flights, 10 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 315 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 CMH
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 315 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 74.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 314 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to CMH, every carrier
- Envoy on CMH to DFW, the return leg
- American Airlines on DFW to CMH69.4%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.