Carrier route record
MQDFW→MLI
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Moline
- Flights
- 605
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 62%
- 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 MLI 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 605 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to MLI record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 77 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 591 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.15%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.3%
Every carrier on DFW to MLI, 981 flights
These figures cover 605 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 MLI
Envoy flew 605 of the 981 flights on DFW to MLI, most of the route. Its 85.3% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.3% to PSA at 76.3%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 605 | 85.3% | 52 min | 2.15% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 57 | 83.9% | 89 min | 1.75% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 319 | 76.3% | 76 min | 4.08% | B− |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on DFW to MLI
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 half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am238 flights91.4%
- 11am–2pm36 flights77.8%
- 2pm–5pm74 flights83.1%
- 5pm–8pm26 flights—
- 8pm–5am231 flights81.1%
Scale runs 70% 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 77.8% on time against 91.4% 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 238 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to MLI through the year
July is the worst month at 73.8% on time, 26 points below December, the best at 100.0%. 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. September was the busiest month here, with 88 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 91.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.2%. 11 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 50% of the 4,523 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.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
50% 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 4,523 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 4,523 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 91.4% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.15% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.2% 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.
The 691 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 runs 86.3% on time across 602 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. 605 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 MLI
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 605 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 85.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 591 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to MLI, every carrier
- Envoy on MLI to DFW, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DFW to MLI76.3%
- 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.