Carrier route record

MQHRL→DFW

Envoy Air · Harlingen to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 1,291
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 86%
Carriers: 2

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

Envoy on HRL to DFW 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 a little over an hour. That rests on 1,291 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's HRL to DFW record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 82 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,256 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.40%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.5%

Every carrier on HRL to DFW, 1,495 flights

These figures cover 1,291 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 HRL to DFW

Envoy flew 1,291 of the 1,495 flights on HRL to DFW, most of the route. Its 85.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 85.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.8% to PSA at 83.2%. 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 HRL to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	1,291	85.8%	81 min	2.40%	A
PSA Airlinesthin sample	204	83.2%	127 min	5.88%	B−

Flight by flight

Envoy flight numbers on HRL to DFW

MQ 381806:0091.3% · 291 flights

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 11 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–8am291 flights91.3%
8am–11am310 flights88.0%
11am–2pm74 flights86.1%
2pm–5pm229 flights82.4%
5pm–8pm205 flights80.1%
8pm–5am182 flights83.7%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.3% of the time, against 80.1% for the evening window. That is 11 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 310 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on HRL to DFW through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, July worst

July is the worst month at 75.8% on time, 19 points below February, the best at 94.7%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. December was the busiest month here, with 142 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 89.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 80.6%. 8 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 47% of the 14,000 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
47%
National Airspace System
28%
Carrier
14%
Extreme weather
11%
Security
0%

47% 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 14,000 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 14,496 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 91.3% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 2.40% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.8% 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 461 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 runs 84.5% on time across 1,291 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.

The sample behind these figures is 1,291 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.

What to do with this

Booking Envoy on HRL to DFW

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 94.7% on time and July 75.8%, a swing of 19 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,256 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.

Key figures