Carrier route record

MQLBB→DFW

Envoy Air · Lubbock to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 1,503
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 57%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on LBB to DFW earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 1,503 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's LBB to DFW record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 67 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,480 completed flights

Avg delay

93 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.20%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.4%

Every carrier on LBB to DFW, 2,628 flights

These figures cover 1,503 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 LBB to DFW

Envoy flew 1,503 of the 2,628 flights on LBB to DFW, most of the route. Its 84.3% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.7% to PSA at 76.8%. Two 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 LBB to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	351	85.7%	136 min	4.56%	A−
Envoy Air (this page)	1,503	84.3%	93 min	1.20%	B
SkyWest Airlines	438	77.3%	90 min	4.11%	B−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	336	76.8%	125 min	5.65%	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 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–8am338 flights89.0%
8am–11am371 flights87.3%
11am–2pm232 flights84.3%
2pm–5pm356 flights78.9%
5pm–8pm110 flights77.6%
8pm–5am96 flights84.0%

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 89.0% of the time, against 77.6% 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 371 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on LBB to DFW through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.March best, August worst

August is the worst month at 74.8% on time, 19 points below March, the best at 93.4%. 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. September was the busiest month here, with 178 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.9%. 9 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 50% of the 22,000 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
50%
National Airspace System
19%
Carrier
16%
Extreme weather
15%

Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 21,503 reported delay minutes.

50% 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 22,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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 1.20% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.33%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.0% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 282 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 84.1% on time across 1,502 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 1,503 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 LBB to DFW

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. March runs 93.4% on time and August 74.8%, a swing of 19 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,480 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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