Carrier route record
MQDFW→PIA
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Peoria
- Flights
- 185
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to PIA lands a B−, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 40 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 185 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to PIA record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 56 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 179 completed flights
Avg delay
39 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.24%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.2%
Every carrier on DFW to PIA, 1,059 flights
These figures cover 185 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DFW to PIA
Envoy flew 185 of the 1,059 flights on DFW to PIA, about 17% of it. Its 83.2% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.2% to PSA at 73.5%.
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 | 185 | 83.2% | 39 min | 3.24% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 874 | 73.5% | 95 min | 4.00% | 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 185 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am73 flights83.1%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm101 flights83.5%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am11 flights—
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 2pm–5pm window is the strongest at 83.5% on time. The full set of windows spans half a point.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to PIA through the year
- Oct–Dec 2025107 flights85.3%
- Jan–Mar 202634 flights76.5%
- Apr–Jun 202644 flights83.7%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. 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 83.2% on time across 185 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on DFW to PIA held fairly steady: 85.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 76.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 1,156 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.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 18%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
45% 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 1,156 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 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 1,156 reported delay minutes.
33% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 376 minutes out of 1,156, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 3.24%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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 2.8% 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 672 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 82.7% on time across 185 flights, within half 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. 185 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 PIA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.24% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you roughly 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. 179 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
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.