Carrier route record

MQDSM→DFW

Envoy Air · Des Moines to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 299
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 21%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on DSM to DFW earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 299 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's DSM to DFW record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 111 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.01%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

74.3%

Every carrier on DSM to DFW, 1,440 flights

These figures cover 299 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 DSM to DFW

Envoy flew 299 of the 1,440 flights on DSM to DFW, about 21% of it. Its 88.4% on time is 14 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.4% to American at 69.7%. 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 DSM to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	299	88.4%	67 min	2.01%	A
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	10	80.0%	78 min	0.00%	B+
PSA Airlinesthin sample	160	75.7%	97 min	4.38%	B−
American Airlines	971	69.7%	105 min	4.02%	C−

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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 10 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am2 flights—
8am–11am161 flights91.9%
11am–2pm1 flights—
2pm–5pm35 flights81.8%
5pm–8pm100 flights84.2%
8pm–5am—

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

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 81.8% for the afternoon window. That is 10 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 161 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on DSM to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights88.0%
Jan–Mar 202629 flights—
Apr–Jun 202698 flights84.4%
Jul–Sep 202663 flights92.1%

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 88.4% on time across 299 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on DSM to DFW held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 92.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 92.5% on time and Saturday the weakest at 84.4%, a spread of 8 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Envoy on DSM to DFW runs when it is late

Envoy on DSM to DFW often beats the schedule: 123 of 292 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 34 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.

15+ min early123 flights42.1%
Within 15 min135 flights46.2%
15–29 min late10 flights3.4%
30–59 min late12 flights4.1%
1–2 hours late7 flights2.4%
2+ hours late5 flights1.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 292 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 46 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 15 still arrived on time. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on DSM to DFW

The latest arrival of the period was on 19 December 2025, 4 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in May 2026.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on DSM to DFW in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
19 December 2025	4 hours 35 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
19 May 2026	2 hours 57 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
18 May 2026	2 hours 49 minutes	Extreme weather
5 August 2026	2 hours 44 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
10 May 2026	2 hours 27 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 70% of the 2,277 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
70%
Extreme weather
13%
Carrier
11%
National Airspace System
7%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,277 reported delay minutes.

70% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,277 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one.

Cancellations sit at 2.01% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.33%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.1% 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 624 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 88.3% on time across 297 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. 299 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 DSM to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 299 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 88.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 292 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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