Carrier route record
MQDFW→LFT
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lafayette
- Flights
- 568
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 34%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to LFT lands a B, 2 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 about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 568 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to LFT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 551 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.99%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.5%
Every carrier on DFW to LFT, 1,670 flights
These figures cover 568 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 LFT
Envoy flew 568 of the 1,670 flights on DFW to LFT, about 34% of it. Its 79.7% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.4% to PSA at 70.9%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 66 | 86.4% | 75 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 568 | 79.7% | 63 min | 2.99% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 1,036 | 70.9% | 92 min | 3.47% | C− |
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–8am—
- 8am–11am247 flights85.8%
- 11am–2pm58 flights90.7%
- 2pm–5pm40 flights78.4%
- 5pm–8pm73 flights68.7%
- 8pm–5am150 flights70.7%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 90.7% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 68.7%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 247 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to LFT through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025273 flights80.1%
- Oct–Dec 2025107 flights78.5%
- Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
- Apr–Jun 2026160 flights76.7%
Scale runs 70% to 85%. 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 79.7% on time across 568 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on DFW to LFT held fairly steady: 80.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.5% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 76.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 89.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 73.7%. 15 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 7,022 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Extreme weather
- 20%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 3.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,022 reported delay minutes.
37% 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 7,022 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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 run at 2.99%, 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
6.9% 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 351 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 82.6% on time across 568 flights, within 3 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. 568 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 LFT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.99% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 551 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.