Carrier route record
MQDFW→GJT
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Grand Junction
- Flights
- 762
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 75%
- 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 GJT lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 762 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 57 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 754 completed flights
Avg delay
45 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.05%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
81.6%
Every carrier on DFW to GJT, 1,018 flights
These figures cover 762 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DFW to GJT
Envoy flew 762 of the 1,018 flights on DFW to GJT, most of the route. Its 83.3% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.3% to SkyWest at 76.2%. 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) | 762 | 83.3% | 45 min | 1.05% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 256 | 76.2% | 64 min | 4.69% | 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 762 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am284 flights86.2%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm195 flights84.5%
- 5pm–8pm82 flights82.7%
- 8pm–5am201 flights78.3%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 86.2% on time for the 8am–11am window against 78.3% for 8pm–5am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 284 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 88.8% on time and Saturday the weakest at 76.9%. 12 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 5,626 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
- 11%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 11% 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 1.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,626 reported delay minutes.
37% 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 5,626 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 1.05% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% 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 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. 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 86.5% on time across 761 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. 762 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. 762 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 83.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 754 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.