Route reliability record
MAF→DFW
Midland to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 2,896
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 309 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 2,896 MAF to DFW flights, of which Envoy Air flew 1,685 at 85.3% on time.
Best time to fly MAF to DFW: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Friday. Flights in that window arrived on time 88.6% of the time and Friday flights 90.1%, against 83.3% for the route overall.
Envoy Air is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 85.3% on time across 1,685 flights.
Key figures
On time
83.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,806 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.94%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
85.3% on time across 1,685 flights
These figures cover 2,896 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on MAF to DFW
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 85.3% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 77.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 480 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,685 | 85.3% | 75 min | 2.43% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 731 | 82.5% | 102 min | 2.87% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 480 | 77.4% | 133 min | 4.79% | B− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.8% 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.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Midland to Dallas-Fort Worth
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 4 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. MAF → DALMidland to Dallas | Southwest Airlines | 88.6% | 89.7% | 1.26% | 5am–8am, Thu | — |
| 2. MAF → DFWMidland to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 83.2% | 85.3% | 2.43% | 5am–8am, Fri | — |
| 3. MAF → DFWMidland to Dallas-Fort Worth | SkyWest Airlines | 80.1% | 82.5% | 2.87% | 5am–8am, Fri | — |
| 4. MAF → DFWMidland to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 73.7% | 77.4% | 4.79% | 11am–2pm, Fri | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am836 flights86.9%
- 8am–11am649 flights88.6%
- 11am–2pm350 flights82.6%
- 2pm–5pm392 flights81.2%
- 5pm–8pm458 flights71.1%
- 8pm–5am211 flights84.0%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 88.6% of the time, against 71.1% for the evening window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 836 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter MAF to DFW by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On MAF to DFW, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 88.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 71.1%, a wide gap of 17.5 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am86.9%
- 8–11am88.6%
- 11am–2pm82.6%
- 2–5pm81.2%
- 5–8pm71.1%
- 8pm–5am84.0%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 14 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 77.7% on time, 14 points below February, the best at 91.6%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 277 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 90.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 79.8%, a spread of 10 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
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 44,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 21%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 44,439 reported delay minutes.
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 44,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.94%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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 actually costs
8.0% 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 309 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 runs 81.9% on time across 2,897 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 2,896 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.94% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 2,806 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
MAF to DFW questions
How often is MAF to DFW delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 16.7% of the 2,896 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on MAF to DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 85.3% on time across 1,685 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 77.4%, a gap of 8 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on MAF to DFW?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 88.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 71.1%, 18 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on MAF to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 77.7% on time, compared with 91.6% in February. Across the year that is 14 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to MAF — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on MAF to DFW85.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on MAF to DFW82.5%
- PSA Airlines on MAF to DFW77.4%
- MAF to DEN, a related route84.0%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- MAF to HOU, a related route84.7%
- Envoy Air on-time record85.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record82.5%
- PSA Airlines on-time record77.4%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. MAF to DFW and DFW to MAF are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.