Carrier route record

MQLIT→DFW

Envoy Air · Little Rock to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 1,748
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 66%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on LIT to DFW lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,748 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.

On time

79.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,709 completed flights

Avg delay

87 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.95%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

76.4%

Every carrier on LIT to DFW, 2,658 flights

These figures cover 1,748 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 LIT to DFW

Envoy flew 1,748 of the 2,658 flights on LIT to DFW, most of the route. Its 79.5% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.5% to American at 68.5%. 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 LIT to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	1,748	79.5%	87 min	1.95%	B
PSA Airlinesthin sample	142	72.6%	68 min	4.93%	C−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	342	72.4%	107 min	2.34%	C
American Airlines	426	68.5%	106 min	3.05%	C−

Flight by flight

Envoy flight numbers on LIT to DFW

MQ 364106:0083.3% · 275 flights

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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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am374 flights84.6%
8am–11am440 flights84.8%
11am–2pm178 flights84.4%
2pm–5pm299 flights73.6%
5pm–8pm439 flights72.4%
8pm–5am18 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 84.8% of the time, against 72.4% for the evening window. That is 12 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 440 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on LIT to DFW through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, June worst

June is the worst month at 69.1% on time, 23 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 83.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.3%, a spread of 9 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Envoy on LIT to DFW runs when it is late

The 351 late arrivals split 124 under half an hour, 101 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 126 an hour or more.

15+ min early397 flights23.2%
Within 15 min961 flights56.2%
15–29 min late124 flights7.3%
30–59 min late101 flights5.9%
1–2 hours late60 flights3.5%
2+ hours late66 flights3.9%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 1,709 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

64 of 336 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 79 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on LIT to DFW

The latest arrival of the period was on 10 July 2026, 27 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on LIT to DFW in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
10 July 2026	27 hours 51 minutes	Carrier
20 May 2026	14 hours 26 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
17 February 2026	13 hours 57 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
2 October 2025	13 hours 52 minutes	Carrier
9 July 2026	13 hours 49 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

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.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
Carrier
26%
Extreme weather
20%
National Airspace System
15%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 30,641 reported delay minutes.

40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 31,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.

Cancellations sit at 1.95% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.4% 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 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 83.1% on time across 1,748 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.

The sample behind these figures is 1,748 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 June 69.1%, a swing of 23 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,709 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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