Carrier route record

MQDFW→ROW

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Roswell

Flights: 242
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 29%
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 ROW lands a B+, 4 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 roughly 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 242 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to ROW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

81.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 240 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.83%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.7%

Every carrier on DFW to ROW, 827 flights

These figures cover 242 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 ROW

Envoy flew 242 of the 827 flights on DFW to ROW, about 29% of it. Its 81.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.2% to SkyWest at 79.0%.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to ROW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	242	81.2%	53 min	0.83%	B+
SkyWest Airlines	585	79.0%	64 min	3.42%	B−

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 242 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am2 flights—
11am–2pm117 flights85.2%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm16 flights—
8pm–5am107 flights78.5%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 85.2% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 78.5%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 117 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to ROW through the year

Oct–Dec 202528 flights—
Jan–Mar 2026106 flights89.5%
Apr–Jun 2026108 flights72.9%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. 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 81.2% on time across 242 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on DFW to ROW logged 28 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 106 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 108 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 81.2% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 88.2% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 75.8%. 12 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 68% of the 2,392 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
68%
National Airspace System
14%
Carrier
9%
Extreme weather
9%

68% 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 2,392 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 2,392 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, 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 roughly 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 435 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.2% on time across 242 flights, 3 points above 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 3 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 242 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 ROW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 242 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 81.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 240 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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.

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