Carrier route record
MQDFW→PNS
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Pensacola
- Flights
- 237
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to PNS lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That rests on 237 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, PSA Airlines, flew 383 at 65.1% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to PNS record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 49 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 236 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.42%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.5%
Every carrier on DFW to PNS, 1,706 flights
These figures cover 237 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DFW to PNS
Envoy flew 237 of the 1,706 flights on DFW to PNS, about 14% of it. Its 82.2% on time is 15 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.2% to American at 65.0%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 237 | 82.2% | 50 min | 0.42% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines | 383 | 65.1% | 82 min | 5.74% | C− |
| American Airlines | 1,086 | 65.0% | 77 min | 2.85% | C |
PSA Airlines cancels 5.7% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am76 flights80.3%
- 8am–11am91 flights90.0%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm70 flights74.3%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 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 74.3% for the afternoon window. That is 16 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202533 flights93.8%
- Jan–Mar 202648 flights81.2%
- Apr–Jun 202662 flights66.1%
- Jul–Sep 202664 flights87.5%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 82.2% on time across 237 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 47 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 94.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 67.6%, a spread of 27 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DFW to PNS runs when it is late
Envoy on DFW to PNS often beats the schedule: 80 of 236 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 42 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early80 flights33.9%
- Within 15 min114 flights48.3%
- 15–29 min late16 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late16 flights6.8%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights3.0%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 236 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 36 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 12 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at PNS.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DFW to PNS
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 May 2026, 2 hours 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across May, August, June and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 May 2026 | 2 hours 49 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 August 2026 | 2 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 2 hours 12 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 25 October 2025 | 1 hour 55 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 22 May 2026 | 1 hour 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
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 2,078 reported delay minutes.
- 42%National Airspace System
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 11%Extreme weather
42% 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 864 minutes out of 2,078, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,078 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 90.0% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.42%, below the national 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 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.
The return leg runs 81.8% on time across 237 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. 237 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. 237 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 82.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 236 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 PNS65.1%
- American Airlines on DFW to PNS65.0%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.