Carrier route record
MQDFW→MSY
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to New Orleans
- Flights
- 211
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 8%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to MSY sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 40 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 211 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to MSY from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 203 completed flights
Avg delay
40 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.84%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
67.6%
Every carrier on DFW to MSY, 2,798 flights
These figures cover 211 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 MSY
Envoy flew 211 of the 2,798 flights on DFW to MSY, about 8% of it. Its 75.9% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 85.3% to PSA at 57.1%. Three 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 35 | 85.3% | 125 min | 2.86% | A |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 211 | 75.9% | 40 min | 2.84% | B |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 184 | 72.2% | 75 min | 4.35% | C− |
| American Airlines | 2,345 | 66.3% | 76 min | 3.24% | C− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 23 | 57.1% | 86 min | 8.70% | D− |
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 211 flights.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am16 flights—
- 11am–2pm101 flights73.2%
- 2pm–5pm92 flights75.3%
- 5pm–8pm1 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 2pm–5pm window is the strongest at 75.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to MSY through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025138 flights75.2%
- Oct–Dec 202518 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202610 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202645 flights76.7%
Scale runs 65% to 80%. 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 75.9% on time across 211 flights.
Split by quarter, Envoy on DFW to MSY logged 138 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 18 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 10 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 45 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 75.9% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 83.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 76.2%. 7 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 1,935 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
- 24%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 4%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 1,935 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 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 1,935 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.84%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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 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 448 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.0% on time across 211 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 211 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 MSY
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.84% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 40 minutes; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 203 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to MSY, every carrier
- Envoy on MSY to DFW, the return leg
- Spirit Airlines on DFW to MSY72.2%
- American Airlines on DFW to MSY66.3%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.