Carrier route record
MQDFW→MFE
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to McAllen
- Flights
- 660
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 27%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to MFE 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 roughly 45 minutes on average. That rests on 660 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to MFE record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 62 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 650 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.36%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.0%
Every carrier on DFW to MFE, 2,445 flights
These figures cover 660 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 MFE
Envoy flew 660 of the 2,445 flights on DFW to MFE, about 27% of it. Its 83.5% on time is 14 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 88.9% to American at 63.4%. 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 | 101 | 88.9% | 62 min | 1.98% | A |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 660 | 83.5% | 46 min | 1.36% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,684 | 63.4% | 85 min | 3.09% | 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–8am103 flights90.2%
- 8am–11am122 flights90.8%
- 11am–2pm116 flights85.2%
- 2pm–5pm225 flights79.3%
- 5pm–8pm93 flights75.6%
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.8% of the time, against 75.6% for the evening 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 225 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to MFE through the year
Delays peak in May, when the on-time rate falls to 75.7%. February is the strongest month at 100.0%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 24 points. June was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 89.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 78.0%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DFW to MFE runs when it is late
Envoy on DFW to MFE often beats the schedule: 167 of 650 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 107 late arrivals split 51 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 26 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early167 flights25.7%
- Within 15 min376 flights57.8%
- 15–29 min late51 flights7.8%
- 30–59 min late30 flights4.6%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late5 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 650 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
26 of 108 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 25 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DFW to MFE
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 June 2026, 4 hours 42 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 22 June 2026 | 4 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 2 hours 18 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 24 May 2026 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 April 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 4,956 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
- 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,956 reported delay minutes.
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,956 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations sit at 1.36% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.15%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 469 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 84.9% on time across 661 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 660 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 MFE
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 660 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 83.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 650 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to MFE, every carrier
- Envoy on MFE to DFW, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to MFE88.9%
- American Airlines on DFW to MFE63.4%
- 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.