Carrier route record
MQLBB→DFW
Envoy Air · Lubbock to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,571
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 60%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on LBB 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 1,571 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's LBB to DFW record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 94 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,549 completed flights
Avg delay
93 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.21%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.1%
Every carrier on LBB to DFW, 2,617 flights
These figures cover 1,571 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 LBB to DFW
Envoy flew 1,571 of the 2,617 flights on LBB to DFW, most of the route. Its 86.7% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 84.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 87.0% to PSA at 75.1%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 289 | 87.0% | 127 min | 4.50% | A− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,571 | 86.7% | 93 min | 1.21% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 400 | 79.2% | 86 min | 2.75% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 357 | 75.1% | 126 min | 5.88% | B− |
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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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am400 flights91.9%
- 8am–11am444 flights89.3%
- 11am–2pm197 flights83.1%
- 2pm–5pm322 flights81.1%
- 5pm–8pm112 flights82.6%
- 8pm–5am96 flights84.0%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 81.1% for the afternoon 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 444 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on LBB to DFW through the year
Delays peak in November, when the on-time rate falls to 75.2%. March is the strongest month at 93.4%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 18 points. August was the busiest month here, with 197 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 89.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 84.3%, a spread of 5 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on LBB to DFW runs when it is late
Envoy on LBB to DFW often beats the schedule: 584 of 1,549 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 206 late arrivals split 60 under half an hour, 66 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 80 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early584 flights37.7%
- Within 15 min759 flights49.0%
- 15–29 min late60 flights3.9%
- 30–59 min late66 flights4.3%
- 1–2 hours late41 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late39 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,549 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
29 of 196 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 39 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on LBB to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 March 2026, 18 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across March, June, September and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 March 2026 | 18 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 June 2026 | 17 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 September 2025 | 11 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 9 hours 48 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 15 August 2026 | 9 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 19,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 16%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 19,105 reported delay minutes.
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 19,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations sit at 1.21% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.19%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.2% 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 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 85.3% on time across 1,570 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 1,571 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 November 75.2%, a swing of 18 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of November before you think about anything else. 1,549 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LBB to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to LBB, the return leg
- American Airlines on LBB to DFW87.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on LBB to DFW79.2%
- PSA Airlines on LBB to DFW75.1%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.