Carrier route record
MQDFW→ELP
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to El Paso
- Flights
- 652
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 25%
- 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 ELP lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five 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 652 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 ELP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 642 completed flights
Avg delay
47 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.23%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
67.7%
Every carrier on DFW to ELP, 2,558 flights
These figures cover 652 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 ELP
Envoy flew 652 of the 2,558 flights on DFW to ELP, about 25% of it. Its 80.1% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.1% to American at 63.0%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 652 | 80.1% | 47 min | 1.23% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 34 | 75.8% | 41 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 39 | 67.6% | 83 min | 5.13% | C− |
| American Airlines | 1,833 | 63.0% | 78 min | 3.93% | 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 10 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–11am101 flights85.9%
- 11am–2pm248 flights81.2%
- 2pm–5pm190 flights77.8%
- 5pm–8pm112 flights75.9%
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 85.9% of the time, against 75.9% for the evening window. That is 10 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 248 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to ELP through the year
July is the worst month at 69.0% on time, 16 points below November, the best at 85.4%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 86.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 74.0%. 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 46% of the 5,998 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.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
46% 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 5,998 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 5,998 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 85.9% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.23% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% 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 551 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 79.2% on time across 653 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. 652 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 ELP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 652 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 80.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 642 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ELP, every carrier
- Envoy on ELP to DFW, the return leg
- American Airlines on DFW to ELP63.0%
- 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 7.04 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.