Carrier route record
MQLIT→DFW
Envoy Air · Little Rock to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,656
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 62%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on LIT to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,656 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 403 at 70.4% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on LIT to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,611 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.36%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.2%
Every carrier on LIT to DFW, 2,670 flights
These figures cover 1,656 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on LIT to DFW
Envoy flew 1,656 of the 2,670 flights on LIT to DFW, most of the route. Its 74.7% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 75.9% to American at 70.0%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 92 | 75.9% | 78 min | 5.43% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,656 | 74.7% | 76 min | 2.36% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 403 | 70.4% | 99 min | 2.48% | C |
| American Airlines | 519 | 70.0% | 104 min | 3.28% | C− |
American Airlines cancels 3.3% 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.
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on LIT to DFW
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 15 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–8am293 flights76.1%
- 8am–11am435 flights83.2%
- 11am–2pm177 flights73.7%
- 2pm–5pm352 flights71.0%
- 5pm–8pm381 flights68.4%
- 8pm–5am18 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 83.2% of the time, against 68.4% for the evening window. That is 15 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 435 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on LIT to DFW through the year
July is the worst month at 55.6% on time, 36 points below February, the best at 92.0%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 231 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 79.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.2%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 31,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Extreme weather
- 20%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 3.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 31,067 reported delay minutes.
39% 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 31,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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 2.36% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.36%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.4% 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 304 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.5% on time across 1,656 flights, 6 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,656 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 LIT to DFW
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 92.0% on time and July 55.6%, a swing of 36 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,611 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIT to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to LIT, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on LIT to DFW70.4%
- American Airlines on LIT to DFW70.0%
- 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 7.04 million flight records
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.