Route reliability record
DFW→MLU
Dallas-Fort Worth to Monroe
- Flights
- 1,166
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 293 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 1,166 DFW to MLU flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly DFW to MLU: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Thursday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.2% of the time and Thursday flights 89.3%, against 85.6% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,129 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.57%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
87.0% on time across 1,035 flights
These figures cover 1,166 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to MLU
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 | 1,035 | 87.0% | 75 min | 2.51% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 131 | 74.4% | 50 min | 3.05% | C− |
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am320 flights91.1%
- 11am–2pm171 flights92.2%
- 2pm–5pm223 flights84.2%
- 5pm–8pm101 flights69.1%
- 8pm–5am351 flights82.6%
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 92.2% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 69.1%. 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 351 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to MLU by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On DFW to MLU, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 92.2% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 69.1%, a wide gap of 23.1 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am91.1%
- 11am–2pm92.2%
- 2–5pm84.2%
- 5–8pm69.1%
- 8pm–5am82.6%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 16 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 79.6% on time, 16 points below February, the best at 95.3%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 89.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 81.2%, a spread of 8 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
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 11,000 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 19%Extreme weather
- 14%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 11,458 reported delay minutes.
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.57%, against 1.89% 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 actually costs
5.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 293 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 84.4% on time across 1,166 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,166 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.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 95.3% on time and June 79.6%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,129 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to MLU questions
How often is DFW to MLU delayed?
About one flight in seven arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 14.4% of the 1,166 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is DFW to MLU compared with the rest of the country?
85.6% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 8 points in its favour. That is worth a A on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to MLU?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 92.2% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 69.1%, 23 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on DFW to MLU?
June is the weakest month at 79.6% on time, compared with 95.3% in February. Across the year that is 16 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- MLU to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to MLU87.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to MLU74.4%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- DFW to LGA, a related route66.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record87.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record74.4%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to MLU and MLU to DFW are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.