Carrier route record

MQDFW→SGF

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Springfield

Flights: 2,615
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 85%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on DFW to SGF 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 an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 2,615 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 SGF from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

80.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,561 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.84%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.1%

Every carrier on DFW to SGF, 3,087 flights

These figures cover 2,615 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 SGF

Envoy flew 2,615 of the 3,087 flights on DFW to SGF, most of the route. Its 80.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 88.0% to Envoy at 80.5%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to SGF
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	123	88.0%	88 min	4.07%	A−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	349	83.5%	71 min	6.02%	B−
Envoy Air (this page)	2,615	80.5%	57 min	1.84%	B

Flight by flight

Envoy flight numbers on DFW to SGF

MQ 409221:0080.6% · 353 flights

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–8am211 flights89.3%
8am–11am411 flights88.9%
11am–2pm256 flights87.7%
2pm–5pm481 flights79.0%
5pm–8pm647 flights71.9%
8pm–5am609 flights79.2%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.3% of the time, against 71.9% for the evening 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 647 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to SGF through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, June worst

June is the worst month at 70.7% on time, 20 points below February, the best at 90.6%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. October was the busiest month here, with 287 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 86.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.2%. 10 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 48% of the 28,000 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
48%
National Airspace System
24%
Carrier
18%
Extreme weather
10%

48% 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 28,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 28,195 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.3% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.84% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.23%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.9% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 364 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 79.4% on time across 2,613 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

The sample behind these figures is 2,615 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.

What to do with this

Booking Envoy on DFW to SGF

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 90.6% on time and June 70.7%, a swing of 20 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 2,561 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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