Carrier route record
MQDFW→ICT
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Wichita
- Flights
- 1,237
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 50%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to ICT lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,237 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, PSA Airlines, flew 781 at 73.5% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to ICT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,198 completed flights
Avg delay
54 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.91%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.0%
Every carrier on DFW to ICT, 2,466 flights
These figures cover 1,237 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 ICT
Envoy flew 1,237 of the 2,466 flights on DFW to ICT, most of the route. Its 80.9% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.4% to American at 58.4%. 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 73.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 58.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 404 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 44 | 86.4% | 66 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,237 | 80.9% | 54 min | 2.91% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 781 | 73.5% | 83 min | 3.97% | C− |
| American Airlines | 404 | 58.4% | 93 min | 3.96% | D− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.0% 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.
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 24 points, against 15 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am117 flights91.6%
- 8am–11am289 flights88.9%
- 11am–2pm132 flights78.3%
- 2pm–5pm364 flights76.5%
- 5pm–8pm158 flights67.3%
- 8pm–5am177 flights84.3%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.6% of the time, against 67.3% for the evening window. That is 24 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 364 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. January was the busiest month here, with 157 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.4%. 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 12,000 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 24%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,243 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 91.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.91%, against 1.81% 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 costs
5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 55 minutes, 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 runs 80.1% on time across 1,239 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 1,237 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 delay figures matter less here than the 2.91% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you roughly 55 minutes; 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. 1,198 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 ICT73.5%
- American Airlines on DFW to ICT58.4%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.