Carrier route record

MQDFW→LBB

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock

Flights: 1,502
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 57%
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 LBB 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 1,502 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to LBB record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 65 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,482 completed flights

Avg delay

63 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.13%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.3%

Every carrier on DFW to LBB, 2,628 flights

These figures cover 1,502 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 LBB

Envoy flew 1,502 of the 2,628 flights on DFW to LBB, most of the route. Its 84.1% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.1% to American at 59.8%. Two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to LBB
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	1,502	84.1%	63 min	1.13%	B
SkyWest Airlines	440	78.9%	100 min	4.77%	B−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	336	77.8%	81 min	6.25%	B−
American Airlinesthin sample	350	59.8%	96 min	4.00%	D−

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 22 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–8am121 flights93.3%
8am–11am401 flights92.0%
11am–2pm312 flights84.6%
2pm–5pm234 flights81.3%
5pm–8pm169 flights82.0%
8pm–5am265 flights71.0%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.3% of the time, against 71.0% for the overnight window. That is 22 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 401 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to LBB through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.March best, August worst

August is the worst month at 78.7% on time, 15 points below March, the best at 93.3%. 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. September was the busiest month here, with 179 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.2%. 12 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 53% of the 15,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
53%
National Airspace System
19%
Carrier
15%
Extreme weather
13%

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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 14,741 reported delay minutes.

53% 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 15,000 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 1.13% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.20%.

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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 282 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 84.3% on time across 1,503 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 1,502 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 LBB

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. March runs 93.3% on time and August 78.7%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,482 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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.

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