Route reliability record
DFW→ICT
Dallas-Fort Worth to Wichita
- Flights
- 2,419
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 328 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 2,419 DFW to ICT flights, of which Envoy Air flew 1,388 at 82.5% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to ICT: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.4% of the time and Tuesday flights 84.5%, against 76.5% for the route overall.
Envoy Air is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 82.5% on time across 1,388 flights.
Key figures
On time
76.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,343 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.89%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
82.5% on time across 1,388 flights
These figures cover 2,419 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to ICT
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 82.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 57.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 400 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 88 | 84.1% | 69 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Envoy Air | 1,388 | 82.5% | 53 min | 2.31% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 543 | 73.7% | 72 min | 4.42% | C− |
| American Airlines | 400 | 57.7% | 98 min | 3.50% | D− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.4% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Wichita
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → ICTDallas-Fort Worth to Wichita | Envoy Air | 80.6% | 82.5% | 2.31% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 2. DFW → ICTDallas-Fort Worth to Wichita | PSA Airlines | 70.4% | 73.7% | 4.42% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
| 3. DFW → ICTDallas-Fort Worth to Wichita | American Airlines | 55.7% | 57.7% | 3.50% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 27 points, against 25 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am142 flights92.4%
- 8am–11am689 flights86.2%
- 11am–2pm166 flights83.0%
- 2pm–5pm584 flights73.7%
- 5pm–8pm338 flights65.7%
- 8pm–5am500 flights67.0%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.4% of the time, against 65.7% for the evening window. That is 27 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 689 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to ICT by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On DFW to ICT, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 92.4% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 65.7%, a wide gap of 26.7 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am92.4%
- 8–11am86.2%
- 11am–2pm83.0%
- 2–5pm73.7%
- 5–8pm65.7%
- 8pm–5am67.0%
best all US flightsScale 55% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 26 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 62.4% on time, 26 points below February, the best at 88.6%. 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 226 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 84.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.4%, a spread of 11 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 39,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 39,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 39,179 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 92.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.89%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
8.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 328 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.9% on time across 2,421 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.
The sample behind these figures is 2,419 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in ICT after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.89% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 2,343 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to ICT questions
How often is DFW to ICT delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 23.5% of the 2,419 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to ICT?
Envoy Air leads at 82.5% on time across 1,388 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 57.7%, a gap of 25 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to ICT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 92.4% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 65.7%, 27 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on DFW to ICT?
June is the weakest month at 62.4% on time, compared with 88.6% in February. Across the year that is 26 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- ICT to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to ICT82.5%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to ICT73.7%
- American Airlines on DFW to ICT57.7%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- DEN to ICT, a related route77.7%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record84.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record82.5%
- PSA Airlines on-time record73.7%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to ICT and ICT to DFW are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.