Carrier route record
MQDFW→LBB
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock
- Flights
- 1,570
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 60%
- 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 LBB earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 1,570 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to LBB record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 80 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,551 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.08%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on DFW to LBB, 2,617 flights
These figures cover 1,570 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DFW to LBB
Envoy flew 1,570 of the 2,617 flights on DFW to LBB, most of the route. Its 85.3% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.3% to American at 65.2%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,570 | 85.3% | 63 min | 1.08% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 402 | 78.8% | 99 min | 3.73% | B− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 357 | 75.8% | 89 min | 6.16% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 288 | 65.2% | 79 min | 4.17% | C− |
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am158 flights93.6%
- 8am–11am402 flights92.2%
- 11am–2pm307 flights86.3%
- 2pm–5pm182 flights83.8%
- 5pm–8pm200 flights84.3%
- 8pm–5am321 flights72.9%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.6% of the time, against 72.9% for the overnight window. That is 21 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 402 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to LBB through the year
December is the weak month at 79.4% on time, against 93.3% in March. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. August was the busiest month here, with 197 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.8%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DFW to LBB runs when it is late
Envoy on DFW to LBB often beats the schedule: 477 of 1,551 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 228 late arrivals split 77 under half an hour, 72 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 79 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early477 flights30.8%
- Within 15 min846 flights54.5%
- 15–29 min late77 flights5.0%
- 30–59 min late72 flights4.6%
- 1–2 hours late53 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late26 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,551 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
45 of 240 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 33 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DFW to LBB
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 May 2026, 6 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2026 | 6 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 June 2026 | 5 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 November 2025 | 5 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 September 2025 | 5 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 June 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 14,414 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 93.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.08% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.13%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.1% 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 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 86.7% on time across 1,571 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 1,570 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 December 79.4%, a swing of 14 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 1,551 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to LBB, every carrier
- Envoy on LBB to DFW, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to LBB78.8%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to LBB75.8%
- American Airlines on DFW to LBB65.2%
- 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 7.05 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.