Carrier route record
MQDFW→ICT
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Wichita
- Flights
- 1,388
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 57%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to ICT lands a B, 5 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 55 minutes on average. That rests on 1,388 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, PSA Airlines, flew 543 at 73.7% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to ICT record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 52 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,353 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.31%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.5%
Every carrier on DFW to ICT, 2,419 flights
These figures cover 1,388 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 ICT
Envoy flew 1,388 of the 2,419 flights on DFW to ICT, most of the route. Its 82.5% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.1% to American at 57.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. PSA Airlines arrives on time 73.7% 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 (this page) | 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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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 23 points, against 16 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am142 flights92.4%
- 8am–11am373 flights89.8%
- 11am–2pm132 flights80.9%
- 2pm–5pm328 flights78.9%
- 5pm–8pm219 flights69.6%
- 8pm–5am194 flights83.1%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.4% of the time, against 69.6% for the evening window. That is 23 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 373 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to ICT through the year
June is the worst month at 63.4% on time, 27 points below February, the best at 90.8%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 158 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.9%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DFW to ICT runs when it is late
The 237 late arrivals split 106 under half an hour, 69 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 62 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early329 flights24.3%
- Within 15 min787 flights58.2%
- 15–29 min late106 flights7.8%
- 30–59 min late69 flights5.1%
- 1–2 hours late42 flights3.1%
- 2+ hours late20 flights1.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,353 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
41 of 202 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 76 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 ICT.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DFW to ICT
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 March 2026, 8 hours behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across March, May, June, October and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 March 2026 | 8 hours | Carrier |
| 10 May 2026 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 June 2026 | 4 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 October 2025 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 July 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 12,000 reported delay minutes.
- 32%National Airspace System
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,456 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 sit at 2.31% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.22%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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.
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 runs 82.0% on time across 1,390 flights, within half 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 1,388 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 ICT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 90.8% on time and June 63.4%, a swing of 27 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,353 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ICT, every carrier
- Envoy on ICT to DFW, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DFW to ICT73.7%
- American Airlines on DFW to ICT57.7%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.