Carrier route record
MQDFW→GCK
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Garden City
- Flights
- 330
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 45%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to GCK sits in the middle of the pack with a B. 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 330 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 GCK from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 324 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.21%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.4%
Every carrier on DFW to GCK, 727 flights
These figures cover 330 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DFW to GCK
Envoy flew 330 of the 727 flights on DFW to GCK, about 45% of it. Its 75.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 75.8% to Envoy at 75.0%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 397 | 75.8% | 76 min | 3.78% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 330 | 75.0% | 65 min | 1.21% | 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 330 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm165 flights79.4%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm2 flights—
- 8pm–5am163 flights70.7%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 79.4% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 70.7%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 165 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to GCK through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025184 flights73.9%
- Oct–Dec 202564 flights77.8%
- Apr–Jun 202682 flights75.3%
Scale runs 65% to 85%. 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 75.0% on time across 330 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on DFW to GCK held fairly steady: 73.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.8% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 75.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 83.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 67.4%. 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 51% of the 5,286 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.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Extreme weather
- 16%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 2.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,286 reported delay minutes.
51% 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 5,286 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 1.21% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.61%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 404 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.7% on time across 330 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 330 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 GCK
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 330 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 75.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 324 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
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.