Carrier route record

MQFWA→DFW

Envoy Air · Fort Wayne to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 589
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 57%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on FWA to DFW lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 589 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on FWA to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 575 completed flights

Avg delay

80 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.36%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.4%

Every carrier on FWA to DFW, 1,034 flights

These figures cover 589 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 FWA to DFW

Envoy flew 589 of the 1,034 flights on FWA to DFW, most of the route. Its 78.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.7% to Envoy at 78.1%. 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 FWA to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	15	86.7%	262 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines	430	78.5%	135 min	5.81%	B−
Envoy Air (this page)	589	78.1%	80 min	1.36%	B

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 14 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–8am166 flights86.5%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm115 flights80.5%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm308 flights72.6%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 86.5% of the time, against 72.6% for the evening window. That is 14 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 308 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on FWA to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025239 flights76.2%
Oct–Dec 2025152 flights81.0%
Jan–Mar 202683 flights79.3%
Apr–Jun 2026115 flights77.5%

Scale runs 70% to 85%. 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 78.1% on time across 589 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on FWA to DFW held fairly steady: 76.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 79.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 77.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 84.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.1%. 13 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 43% of the 10,000 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
43%
Carrier
30%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
10%
Security
1%

43% 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 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 10,042 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 86.5% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.36% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.02%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.5% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 859 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 runs 79.1% on time across 589 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.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 589 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 FWA to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 589 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 78.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 575 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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