Carrier route record
MQICT→DFW
Envoy Air · Wichita to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,390
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 57%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ICT to DFW lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 1,390 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, PSA Airlines, flew 544 at 82.1% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's ICT to DFW record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,353 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.52%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.9%
Every carrier on ICT to DFW, 2,421 flights
These figures cover 1,390 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ICT to DFW
Envoy flew 1,390 of the 2,421 flights on ICT to DFW, most of the route. Its 82.0% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.2% to American at 68.0%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. PSA Airlines arrives on time 82.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 68.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 399 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 88 | 85.2% | 151 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 544 | 82.1% | 112 min | 3.31% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,390 | 82.0% | 71 min | 2.52% | B |
| American Airlines | 399 | 68.0% | 117 min | 3.51% | C− |
American Airlines cancels 3.5% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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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 18 points, against 14 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am210 flights90.3%
- 8am–11am293 flights90.7%
- 11am–2pm222 flights85.3%
- 2pm–5pm352 flights72.8%
- 5pm–8pm206 flights77.9%
- 8pm–5am107 flights74.0%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.7% of the time, against 72.8% for the afternoon window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 352 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ICT to DFW through the year
June is the worst month at 59.8% on time, 33 points below February, the best at 92.7%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 159 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.2%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ICT to DFW runs when it is late
Envoy on ICT to DFW often beats the schedule: 461 of 1,353 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 243 late arrivals split 74 under half an hour, 77 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 92 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early461 flights34.1%
- Within 15 min649 flights48.0%
- 15–29 min late74 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late77 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late59 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late33 flights2.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,353 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
55 of 268 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 30 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ICT to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 June 2026, 13 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 June 2026 | 13 hours 44 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 May 2026 | 7 hours 47 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 June 2026 | 6 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 December 2025 | 5 hours 21 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 May 2026 | 5 hours 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 18%Extreme weather
- 16%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 17,124 reported delay minutes.
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.52%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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 328 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 82.5% on time across 1,388 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,390 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 ICT to DFW
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 92.7% on time and June 59.8%, a swing of 33 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,353 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ICT to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to ICT, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on ICT to DFW82.1%
- American Airlines on ICT to DFW68.0%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.