Carrier route record

MQGCK→DFW

Envoy Air · Garden City to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 330
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 45%
Carriers: 2

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

Envoy on GCK to DFW lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About 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 330 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

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

On time

80.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 321 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.52%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.6%

Every carrier on GCK to DFW, 727 flights

These figures cover 330 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 GCK to DFW

Envoy flew 330 of the 727 flights on GCK to DFW, about 45% of it. Its 80.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 82.4% to Envoy at 80.7%.

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 GCK to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines	397	82.4%	113 min	3.78%	B−
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	330	80.7%	75 min	1.52%	B

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 330 flights.

5am–8am165 flights84.5%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm165 flights76.9%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 84.5% on time for the 5am–8am window against 76.9% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 165 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on GCK to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025184 flights81.0%
Oct–Dec 202565 flights81.2%
Apr–Jun 202681 flights79.5%

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 80.7% on time across 330 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on GCK to DFW held fairly steady: 81.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.2% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 79.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 2 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 93.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.3%. 20 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 49% of the 4,635 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
49%
Extreme weather
21%
Carrier
17%
National Airspace System
14%

Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,635 reported delay minutes.

49% 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 4,635 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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.

Cancellations sit at 1.52% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.21%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.8% 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.

At 404 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.0% on time across 330 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 330 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 GCK to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 330 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 80.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 321 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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