Carrier route record

MQDFW→LEX

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lexington

Flights: 585
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 48%
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 LEX lands a B, about a point 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 585 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to LEX from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 575 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.71%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

74.7%

Every carrier on DFW to LEX, 1,216 flights

These figures cover 585 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 LEX

Envoy flew 585 of the 1,216 flights on DFW to LEX, about 48% of it. Its 78.6% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 96.9% to American at 64.8%. Three 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 LEX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	32	96.9%	27 min	0.00%	A+
Envoy Air (this page)	585	78.6%	53 min	1.71%	B
PSA Airlinesthin sample	281	75.2%	107 min	5.34%	B−
American Airlinesthin sample	318	64.8%	97 min	2.20%	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 14 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–8am—
8am–11am93 flights88.0%
11am–2pm63 flights83.6%
2pm–5pm225 flights75.2%
5pm–8pm160 flights77.2%
8pm–5am44 flights73.8%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 88.0% of the time, against 73.8% for the overnight window. That is 14 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 225 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to LEX through the year

Jul–Sep 2025182 flights74.4%
Oct–Dec 2025135 flights85.8%
Jan–Mar 202662 flights83.3%
Apr–Jun 2026206 flights76.1%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 78.6% on time across 585 flights.

Envoy on DFW to LEX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 74.4%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 146 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 88.5% on time and Saturday the weakest at 71.1%. 17 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 44% of the 6,535 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
44%
National Airspace System
26%
Carrier
20%
Extreme weather
11%

44% 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 6,535 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. The split is drawn from 6,535 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 88.0% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.71% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.4% 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.

The 785 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg runs 76.3% on time across 584 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 585 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking Envoy on DFW to LEX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 585 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 78.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 575 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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