Carrier route record
MQDFW→LIT
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Little Rock
- Flights
- 1,748
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 66%
- 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 LIT lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 1,748 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to LIT record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 58 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,713 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.95%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.2%
Every carrier on DFW to LIT, 2,657 flights
These figures cover 1,748 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 LIT
Envoy flew 1,748 of the 2,657 flights on DFW to LIT, most of the route. Its 83.1% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.1% to American at 59.2%. 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) | 1,748 | 83.1% | 58 min | 1.95% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 342 | 78.0% | 69 min | 1.75% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 142 | 75.7% | 67 min | 4.23% | B− |
| American Airlines | 425 | 59.2% | 87 min | 2.59% | D |
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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 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am259 flights91.3%
- 8am–11am258 flights88.0%
- 11am–2pm162 flights87.6%
- 2pm–5pm366 flights83.2%
- 5pm–8pm422 flights77.8%
- 8pm–5am281 flights76.1%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.3% of the time, against 76.1% for the overnight window. That is 15 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 422 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to LIT through the year
June is the worst month at 70.9% on time, 21 points below February, the best at 92.0%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 231 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 91.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.5%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DFW to LIT runs when it is late
Envoy on DFW to LIT often beats the schedule: 440 of 1,713 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 290 late arrivals split 103 under half an hour, 100 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 87 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early440 flights25.7%
- Within 15 min983 flights57.4%
- 15–29 min late103 flights6.0%
- 30–59 min late100 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late55 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late32 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,713 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
58 of 281 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 67 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DFW to LIT
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 June 2026, 7 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in June 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2026 | 7 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 September 2025 | 6 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 October 2025 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 June 2026 | 4 hours | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 16%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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 16,722 reported delay minutes.
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations sit at 1.95% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.06%.
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 304 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.5% on time across 1,748 flights, 4 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 4 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,748 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 LIT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 92.0% on time and June 70.9%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,713 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to LIT, every carrier
- Envoy on LIT to DFW, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to LIT78.0%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to LIT75.7%
- American Airlines on DFW to LIT59.2%
- 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.