Carrier route record

MQDFW→FWA

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Fort Wayne

Flights: 589
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 57%
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 FWA lands a B, 2 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 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 589 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to FWA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

79.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 580 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.36%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.3%

Every carrier on DFW to FWA, 1,034 flights

These figures cover 589 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 FWA

Envoy flew 589 of the 1,034 flights on DFW to FWA, most of the route. Its 79.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.1% to PSA at 77.1%. 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 FWA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	589	79.1%	49 min	1.36%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	14	78.6%	176 min	0.00%	B+
PSA Airlines	431	77.1%	87 min	4.87%	B−

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 589 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am115 flights83.5%
11am–2pm30 flights—
2pm–5pm280 flights79.6%
5pm–8pm123 flights74.6%
8pm–5am41 flights75.0%

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 83.5% of the time, against 74.6% for the evening window. That is 9 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 280 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to FWA through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.March best, July worst

July is the worst month at 68.3% on time, 19 points below March, the best at 87.1%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 88.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 70.7%. 17 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 5,921 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
24%
Carrier
23%
Extreme weather
15%

Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,921 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 5,921 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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 1.36% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.2% 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 roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 859 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 78.1% on time across 589 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. 589 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 FWA

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 589 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 79.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 580 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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