Carrier route record

MQDFW→MCI

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Kansas City

Flights: 413
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 16%
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 MCI earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 413 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to MCI record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 85 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 410 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.73%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

68.7%

Every carrier on DFW to MCI, 2,539 flights

These figures cover 413 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 MCI

Envoy flew 413 of the 2,539 flights on DFW to MCI, about 16% of it. Its 86.1% on time is 17 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 68.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.1% to American at 64.7%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to MCI
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	413	86.1%	48 min	0.73%	A+
PSA Airlinesthin sample	114	75.5%	66 min	10.53%	B−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	17	71.4%	99 min	17.65%	C−
American Airlines	1,995	64.7%	78 min	3.11%	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 13 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–8am48 flights87.5%
8am–11am161 flights88.7%
11am–2pm41 flights75.6%
2pm–5pm155 flights87.7%
5pm–8pm4 flights—
8pm–5am4 flights—

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

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 75.6% on time against 88.7% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 161 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to MCI through the year

Jul–Sep 2025175 flights83.3%
Oct–Dec 202594 flights90.4%
Jan–Mar 202662 flights88.7%
Apr–Jun 202682 flights85.0%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. 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 86.1% on time across 413 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on DFW to MCI held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 96.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 77.4%. 19 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 2,736 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
27%
Carrier
22%
Extreme weather
20%

Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,736 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 88.7% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.73%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 460 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.9% on time across 413 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 413 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 MCI

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 413 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 86.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 410 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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