Carrier route record
MQMAF→DFW
Envoy Air · Midland to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,769
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 60%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on MAF to DFW lands a B, 6 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 1,769 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 782 at 81.9% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's MAF to DFW record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 62 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,718 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.71%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.7%
Every carrier on MAF to DFW, 2,933 flights
These figures cover 1,769 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 MAF to DFW
Envoy flew 1,769 of the 2,933 flights on MAF to DFW, most of the route. Its 83.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 82.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.8% to PSA at 78.8%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 1,769 | 83.8% | 76 min | 2.71% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines | 782 | 81.9% | 113 min | 3.07% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 382 | 78.8% | 123 min | 5.76% | B− |
PSA Airlines cancels 5.8% 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.
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 17 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am401 flights89.6%
- 8am–11am461 flights89.0%
- 11am–2pm229 flights78.8%
- 2pm–5pm265 flights80.2%
- 5pm–8pm199 flights72.5%
- 8pm–5am214 flights81.6%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.6% of the time, against 72.5% for the evening window. That is 17 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 461 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on MAF to DFW through the year
July is the worst month at 76.5% on time, 17 points below April, the best at 93.3%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 211 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 88.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 79.3%. 9 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 45% of the 21,000 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.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Extreme weather
- 15%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 26% 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 4.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 21,053 reported delay minutes.
45% 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 21,000 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 run at 2.71%, 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
6.8% 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 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 82.2% on time across 1,769 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,769 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 MAF to DFW
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 93.3% on time and July 76.5%, a swing of 17 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,718 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MAF to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to MAF, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on MAF to DFW81.9%
- PSA Airlines on MAF to DFW78.8%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.