Carrier route record

MQLEX→DFW

Envoy Air · Lexington to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 584
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 48%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on LEX to DFW lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 584 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 LEX to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

76.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 573 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.71%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.0%

Every carrier on LEX to DFW, 1,216 flights

These figures cover 584 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 LEX to DFW

Envoy flew 584 of the 1,216 flights on LEX to DFW, about 48% of it. Its 76.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 90.6% to American at 72.6%. Three 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 LEX to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	32	90.6%	47 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlinesthin sample	282	82.0%	112 min	4.26%	B−
Envoy Air (this page)	584	76.3%	59 min	1.71%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	318	72.6%	146 min	2.20%	C

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 24 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–8am204 flights87.7%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm60 flights72.9%
2pm–5pm95 flights81.5%
5pm–8pm225 flights64.2%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.2% on time, against 87.7% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 225 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on LEX to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025182 flights74.3%
Oct–Dec 2025135 flights79.1%
Jan–Mar 202662 flights83.3%
Apr–Jun 2026205 flights74.0%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 76.3% on time across 584 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on LEX to DFW held fairly steady: 74.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 79.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 74.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 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 82.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 71.1%. 12 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 42% of the 7,962 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
42%
National Airspace System
29%
Carrier
19%
Extreme weather
10%

42% 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 7,962 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 7,962 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 87.7% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.71% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.2% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 785 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg runs 78.6% on time across 585 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 584 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 LEX to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 584 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 76.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 573 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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