Carrier route record
MQDFW→MGM
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Montgomery
- Flights
- 231
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- 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 MGM earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 231 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to MGM record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 225 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.16%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.6%
Every carrier on DFW to MGM, 1,062 flights
These figures cover 231 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 MGM
Envoy flew 231 of the 1,062 flights on DFW to MGM, about 22% of it. Its 84.0% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.0% to PSA at 71.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 231 | 84.0% | 62 min | 2.16% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 62 | 75.4% | 71 min | 1.61% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 769 | 71.5% | 90 min | 6.24% | C− |
Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 231 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am159 flights81.4%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm33 flights90.6%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am38 flights88.9%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 90.6% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 81.4%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 159 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to MGM through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025148 flights83.4%
- Oct–Dec 202542 flights90.5%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights78.9%
Scale runs 70% 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 84.0% on time across 231 flights.
Envoy on DFW to MGM did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 90.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 78.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 77 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 96.8% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 72.7%. 24 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 2,214 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%National Airspace System
- 25%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
36% 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 2,214 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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. The split is drawn from 2,214 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.16% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.43%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.3% 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.
The 622 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.3% on time across 231 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 231 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 MGM
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 231 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 84.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 225 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to MGM, every carrier
- Envoy on MGM to DFW, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DFW to MGM71.5%
- 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 7.04 million flight records
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.