Carrier route record
MQDFW→GJT
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Grand Junction
- Flights
- 710
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 68%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to GJT lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That rests on 710 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to GJT record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 702 completed flights
Avg delay
43 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.13%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.0%
Every carrier on DFW to GJT, 1,044 flights
These figures cover 710 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DFW to GJT
Envoy flew 710 of the 1,044 flights on DFW to GJT, most of the route. Its 83.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.6% to SkyWest at 81.7%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 710 | 83.6% | 43 min | 1.13% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 334 | 81.7% | 75 min | 2.10% | B |
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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 710 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am258 flights86.3%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm195 flights84.5%
- 5pm–8pm65 flights82.8%
- 8pm–5am192 flights79.4%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 86.3% on time for the 8am–11am window against 79.4% for 8pm–5am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 258 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to GJT through the year
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 67.2%. February is the strongest month at 91.3%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 24 points. March was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 90.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 77.1%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DFW to GJT runs when it is late
Envoy on DFW to GJT often beats the schedule: 212 of 702 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 60 of the 115 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 23 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early212 flights30.2%
- Within 15 min375 flights53.4%
- 15–29 min late60 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late32 flights4.6%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights2.1%
- 2+ hours late8 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 702 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 87 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 48 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at GJT.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DFW to GJT
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 September 2025, 4 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2025 | 4 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 October 2025 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 May 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 September 2025 | 2 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 25 January 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | National Airspace System |
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 4,977 reported delay minutes.
- 39%National Airspace System
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,977 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 4,977 reported delay minutes.
39% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,946 minutes out of 4,977, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 1.13% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 772 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.8% on time across 710 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 710 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 GJT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 710 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 83.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 702 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.