Route reliability record
DFW→SHV
Dallas-Fort Worth to Shreveport
- Flights
- 2,127
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 190 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.7% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 2,127 DFW to SHV flights, of which Envoy Air flew 424 at 83.8% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to SHV: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 85.4% of the time and Tuesday flights 84.7%, against 76.5% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,047 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.67%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
83.8% on time across 424 flights
These figures cover 2,127 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to SHV
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 83.8% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 74.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,436 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 424 | 83.8% | 45 min | 4.95% | B− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 267 | 75.4% | 87 min | 4.12% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,436 | 74.5% | 90 min | 3.20% | C− |
Envoy Air cancels 5.0% 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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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Shreveport
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → SHVDallas-Fort Worth to Shreveport | Envoy Air | 79.7% | 83.8% | 4.95% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
| 2. DFW → SHVDallas-Fort Worth to Shreveport | SkyWest Airlines | 72.1% | 74.5% | 3.20% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against 9 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am604 flights85.4%
- 11am–2pm240 flights79.8%
- 2pm–5pm471 flights72.3%
- 5pm–8pm356 flights68.2%
- 8pm–5am456 flights73.5%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 85.4% of the time, against 68.2% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 604 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to SHV by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On DFW to SHV, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 85.4% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 68.2%, a wide gap of 17.2 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am85.4%
- 11am–2pm79.8%
- 2–5pm72.3%
- 5–8pm68.2%
- 8pm–5am73.5%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 12 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 69.1% on time, 12 points below October, the best at 81.5%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 209 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 84.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.0%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 40,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 40,398 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 18,000 of the 40,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.67%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 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 actually costs
9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 190 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 77.4% on time across 2,127 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 2,127 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in SHV after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.67% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 2,047 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to SHV questions
How often is DFW to SHV delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 23.5% of the 2,127 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to SHV?
Envoy Air leads at 83.8% on time across 424 flights. SkyWest Airlines is at the other end on 74.5%, a gap of 9 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to SHV?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 85.4% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 68.2%, 17 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on DFW to SHV?
June is the weakest month at 69.1% on time, compared with 81.5% in October. Across the year that is 12 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- SHV to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to SHV83.8%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to SHV75.4%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to SHV74.5%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- ATL to SHV, a related route75.0%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record83.8%
- PSA Airlines on-time record75.4%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record74.5%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
Direction matters. DFW to SHV and SHV to DFW are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.