Carrier route record
MQDFW→HRL
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Harlingen
- Flights
- 1,291
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 86%
- 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 HRL earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 1,291 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to HRL record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 69 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,257 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.48%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
84.5%
Every carrier on DFW to HRL, 1,495 flights
These figures cover 1,291 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 HRL
Envoy flew 1,291 of the 1,495 flights on DFW to HRL, most of the route. Its 84.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 84.8% to Envoy at 84.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 204 | 84.8% | 150 min | 6.37% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,291 | 84.5% | 55 min | 2.48% | B |
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 12 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–11am384 flights88.6%
- 11am–2pm149 flights89.7%
- 2pm–5pm286 flights82.4%
- 5pm–8pm189 flights78.0%
- 8pm–5am283 flights82.5%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 89.7% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 78.0%. 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 384 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to HRL through the year
August is the worst month at 74.0% on time, 23 points below February, the best at 96.8%. 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. December was the busiest month here, with 142 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 79.3%. 9 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 11,000 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
- 22%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,755 reported delay minutes.
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 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 2.48% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.15%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.2% 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.
At 461 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 runs 85.8% on time across 1,291 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,291 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking Envoy on DFW to HRL
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 96.8% on time and August 74.0%, a swing of 23 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,257 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to HRL, every carrier
- Envoy on HRL to DFW, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DFW to HRL84.8%
- 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.