Carrier route record
MQDFW→PNS
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Pensacola
- Flights
- 202
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 12%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to PNS lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 202 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to PNS from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 201 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.50%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
66.7%
Every carrier on DFW to PNS, 1,749 flights
These figures cover 202 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 PNS
Envoy flew 202 of the 1,749 flights on DFW to PNS, about 12% of it. Its 80.6% on time is 14 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 66.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.6% to American at 64.4%. 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)thin sample | 202 | 80.6% | 50 min | 0.50% | B+ |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 29 | 79.3% | 166 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 361 | 64.9% | 83 min | 5.26% | D− |
| American Airlines | 1,157 | 64.4% | 79 min | 3.28% | D− |
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 17 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–8am43 flights74.4%
- 8am–11am91 flights90.0%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm67 flights73.1%
- 5pm–8pm1 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.0% of the time, against 73.1% for the afternoon window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 91 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to PNS through the year
- Jul–Sep 202559 flights88.1%
- Oct–Dec 202533 flights93.8%
- Jan–Mar 202648 flights81.2%
- Apr–Jun 202662 flights66.1%
Scale runs 60% to 100%. 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 80.6% on time across 202 flights.
Envoy on DFW to PNS did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 93.8% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 66.1%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 51 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 90.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 70.0%. 20 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. National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 1,947 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.
- 54%National Airspace System
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
54% 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 1,052 minutes out of 1,947, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,947 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.50%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.0% 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 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 604 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 76.6% on time across 202 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 202 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 PNS
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 202 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 80.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 201 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to PNS, every carrier
- Envoy on PNS to DFW, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DFW to PNS64.9%
- American Airlines on DFW to PNS64.4%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.