Carrier route record

MQDFW→VPS

Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Valparaiso

Flights: 165
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 12%
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 VPS earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 165 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DFW to VPS record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 76 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 162 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.21%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

67.7%

Every carrier on DFW to VPS, 1,353 flights

These figures cover 165 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on DFW to VPS

Envoy flew 165 of the 1,353 flights on DFW to VPS, about 12% of it. Its 85.2% on time is 18 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 87.3% to American at 61.8%. One 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 VPS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlinesthin sample	159	87.3%	65 min	5.03%	A−
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	165	85.2%	49 min	1.21%	A
American Airlines	1,029	61.8%	77 min	3.60%	D−

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 165 flights.

5am–8am4 flights—
8am–11am55 flights81.8%
11am–2pm2 flights—
2pm–5pm41 flights82.5%
5pm–8pm63 flights90.2%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 90.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 8 points.

Across the year

Envoy on DFW to VPS through the year

Jul–Sep 202513 flights—
Oct–Dec 202534 flights90.9%
Jan–Mar 202632 flights93.5%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights81.4%

Scale runs 75% 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 85.2% on time across 165 flights.

Envoy on DFW to VPS did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 93.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 55 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.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 1,174 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
56%
National Airspace System
34%
Carrier
6%
Extreme weather
4%

56% 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 1,174 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 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 1,174 reported delay minutes.

34% 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 398 minutes out of 1,174, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations sit at 1.21% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.61%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 641 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 80.2% on time across 165 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 165 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 VPS

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 165 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 85.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 162 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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