Carrier route record
MQLFT→DFW
Envoy Air · Lafayette to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 568
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 34%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on LFT to DFW lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. 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 is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 568 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's LFT to DFW record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 552 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.64%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.5%
Every carrier on LFT to DFW, 1,670 flights
These figures cover 568 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 LFT to DFW
Envoy flew 568 of the 1,670 flights on LFT to DFW, about 34% of it. Its 82.6% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.6% to PSA at 68.3%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 568 | 82.6% | 77 min | 2.64% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 66 | 76.6% | 113 min | 1.52% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 1,036 | 68.3% | 105 min | 4.54% | 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 29 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–8am153 flights92.8%
- 8am–11am132 flights83.3%
- 11am–2pm115 flights82.3%
- 2pm–5pm58 flights85.5%
- 5pm–8pm69 flights65.1%
- 8pm–5am41 flights63.9%
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 63.9% on time, against 92.8% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 153 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on LFT to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025273 flights84.3%
- Oct–Dec 2025108 flights82.4%
- Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
- Apr–Jun 2026159 flights77.2%
Scale runs 70% 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 82.6% on time across 568 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on LFT to DFW held fairly steady: 84.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.4% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 77.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 94.0% on time and Monday the weakest at 79.3%. 15 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 54% of the 7,378 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.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Extreme weather
- 18%National Airspace System
- 10%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 2.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,378 reported delay minutes.
54% 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 7,378 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 run at 2.64%, against 1.81% 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
7.4% 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 351 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 79.7% on time across 568 flights, within 3 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. 568 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 LFT to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 568 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 82.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 552 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.