Route reliability record
DFW→MAF
Dallas-Fort Worth to Midland
- Flights
- 2,897
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 309 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, 5 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 2,897 DFW to MAF flights, of which Envoy Air flew 1,686 at 84.9% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to MAF: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.4% of the time and Wednesday flights 85.5%, against 81.9% for the route overall.
Envoy Air is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 84.9% on time across 1,686 flights.
Key figures
On time
81.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,814 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.66%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
84.9% on time across 1,686 flights
These figures cover 2,897 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to MAF
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 84.9% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 74.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 481 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,686 | 84.9% | 58 min | 2.31% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines | 730 | 79.4% | 81 min | 2.05% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 481 | 74.9% | 98 min | 4.78% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.8% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Midland
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 4 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → MAFDallas-Fort Worth to Midland | Envoy Air | 82.9% | 84.9% | 2.31% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
| 2. DFW → MAFDallas-Fort Worth to Midland | SkyWest Airlines | 77.8% | 79.4% | 2.05% | 5am–8am, Thu | — |
| 3. DAL → MAFDallas to Midland | Southwest Airlines | 76.8% | 77.4% | 0.81% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
| 4. DFW → MAFDallas-Fort Worth to Midland | PSA Airlines | 71.3% | 74.9% | 4.78% | 8am–11am, Fri | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am321 flights84.8%
- 8am–11am596 flights91.4%
- 11am–2pm299 flights85.7%
- 2pm–5pm534 flights78.0%
- 5pm–8pm466 flights81.5%
- 8pm–5am681 flights73.7%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.4% of the time, against 73.7% for the overnight window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 681 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to MAF by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On DFW to MAF, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 91.4% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 73.7%, a wide gap of 17.7 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am84.8%
- 8–11am91.4%
- 11am–2pm85.7%
- 2–5pm78.0%
- 5–8pm81.5%
- 8pm–5am73.7%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 18 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 73.1% on time, 18 points below February, the best at 91.1%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 277 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.7%, a spread of 6 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
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 38,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 13%Extreme weather
- 12%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 37,525 reported delay minutes.
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 38,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.66%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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 actually costs
7.2% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 309 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 83.3% on time across 2,896 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 2,897 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in MAF after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 91.1% on time and June 73.1%, a swing of 18 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 2,814 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to MAF questions
How often is DFW to MAF delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 18.1% of the 2,897 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to MAF?
Envoy Air leads at 84.9% on time across 1,686 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 74.9%, a gap of 10 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to MAF?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 91.4% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 73.7%, 18 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on DFW to MAF?
June is the weakest month at 73.1% on time, compared with 91.1% in February. Across the year that is 18 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- MAF to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to MAF84.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to MAF79.4%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to MAF74.9%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- DEN to MAF, a related route77.3%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record84.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record79.4%
- PSA Airlines on-time record74.9%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to MAF and MAF to DFW are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.