Route reliability record
ELP→DFW
El Paso to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 2,593
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 551 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 2,593 ELP to DFW flights, of which Envoy Air flew 603 at 80.8% on time.
Best time to fly ELP to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 86.3% of the time and Tuesday flights 82.2%, against 78.4% 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
78.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,519 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
80.8% on time across 603 flights
These figures cover 2,593 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% 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 ELP to DFW
The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 603 | 80.8% | 101 min | 0.83% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 39 | 78.9% | 103 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 1,912 | 77.8% | 104 min | 2.98% | B |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 39 | 73.0% | 92 min | 5.13% | C− |
No carrier stands out. Envoy tops the table at 80.8%, 3 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly El Paso to Dallas-Fort Worth
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. ELP → DFWEl Paso to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 80.1% | 80.8% | 0.83% | 2pm–5pm, Mon | — |
| 2. ELP → DALEl Paso to Dallas | Southwest Airlines | 79.6% | 80.4% | 1.02% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 3. ELP → DFWEl Paso to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 75.5% | 77.8% | 2.98% | 5am–8am, 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 19 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am744 flights86.3%
- 8am–11am545 flights83.3%
- 11am–2pm474 flights78.9%
- 2pm–5pm546 flights67.1%
- 5pm–8pm279 flights69.5%
- 8pm–5am5 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 86.3% of the time, against 67.1% for the afternoon window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 744 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter ELP to DFW 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 ELP to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 86.3% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 67.1%, a wide gap of 19.2 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am86.3%
- 8–11am83.3%
- 11am–2pm78.9%
- 2–5pm67.1%
- 5–8pm69.5%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
Twelve months, one bar each, drawn from the same 2,593 flights. The strip shows how much of this route's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
Delays peak in November, when the on-time rate falls to 73.4%. March is the strongest month at 84.5%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 11 points. October was the busiest month here, with 235 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.7%, a spread of 8 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 56,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 56,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 55,870 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 86.3% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.39%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
9.8% 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.
The 551 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 68.1% on time across 2,594 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,593 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 DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: take the 5am–8am departure, avoid November if the dates are flexible, and if two carriers are within a few dollars of each other, Envoy is the one with the record behind it. None of that guarantees an on-time arrival; it moves the odds by 19 points, which is the most any booking decision can do. 2,519 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
ELP to DFW questions
How often is ELP to DFW delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 21.6% of the 2,593 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
Which airline is most reliable on ELP to DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 80.8% on time across 603 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 77.8%, a gap of 3 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 ELP to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 86.3% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 67.1%, 19 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 November delays on ELP to DFW?
November is the weakest month at 73.4% on time, compared with 84.5% in March. Across the year that is 11 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
- DFW to ELP — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on ELP to DFW80.8%
- American Airlines on ELP to DFW77.8%
- ELP to PHX, a related route81.6%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- ELP to DEN, a related route79.8%
- Envoy Air on-time record80.8%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record78.9%
- American Airlines on-time record77.8%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Direction matters. ELP to DFW and DFW to ELP 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.