Carrier route record

MQDFW→MAF

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Midland

Flights: 1,769
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 60%
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 MAF lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six 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 1,769 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 782 at 78.0% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to MAF record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 46 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,718 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.60%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.4%

Every carrier on DFW to MAF, 2,934 flights

These figures cover 1,769 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on DFW to MAF

Envoy flew 1,769 of the 2,934 flights on DFW to MAF, most of the route. Its 82.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.2% to PSA at 76.6%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: about a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to MAF
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	1,769	82.2%	55 min	2.60%	B
SkyWest Airlines	782	78.0%	83 min	2.17%	B
PSA Airlines	383	76.6%	98 min	4.96%	B−

PSA Airlines cancels 5.0% 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.

Flight by flight

Envoy flight numbers on DFW to MAF

MQ 427918:3879.5% · 266 flights

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 about a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am465 flights90.3%
11am–2pm234 flights86.0%
2pm–5pm216 flights78.7%
5pm–8pm398 flights79.3%
8pm–5am456 flights76.1%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.3% of the time, against 76.1% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 465 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to MAF through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, July worst

July is the worst month at 68.6% on time, 28 points below February, the best at 96.8%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 211 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.3%. 8 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 48% of the 17,000 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
48%
Carrier
19%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
13%

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 16,885 reported delay minutes.

48% 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 17,000 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.

Cancellations run at 2.60%, against 1.81% 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 costs

5.1% 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 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 83.8% on time across 1,769 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.

The sample behind these figures is 1,769 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 MAF

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 96.8% on time and July 68.6%, a swing of 28 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,718 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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