Carrier route record
MQMCI→DFW
Envoy Air · Kansas City to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 413
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 16%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on MCI to DFW lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five 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 413 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on MCI 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
79.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 408 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.73%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.5%
Every carrier on MCI to DFW, 2,537 flights
These figures cover 413 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 MCI to DFW
Envoy flew 413 of the 2,537 flights on MCI to DFW, about 16% of it. Its 79.9% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.9% to PSA at 64.6%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 413 | 79.9% | 78 min | 0.73% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 17 | 78.6% | 231 min | 17.65% | B− |
| American Airlines | 1,994 | 73.8% | 96 min | 3.16% | C− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 113 | 64.6% | 69 min | 11.50% | D− |
Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 413 flights.
- 5am–8am7 flights—
- 8am–11am93 flights84.9%
- 11am–2pm150 flights80.4%
- 2pm–5pm8 flights—
- 5pm–8pm155 flights75.8%
- 8pm–5am—
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 84.9% of the time, against 75.8% for the evening window. That is 9 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 155 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on MCI to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025175 flights77.0%
- Oct–Dec 202595 flights85.3%
- Jan–Mar 202661 flights86.4%
- Apr–Jun 202682 flights75.0%
Scale runs 65% 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 79.9% on time across 413 flights.
Envoy on MCI to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 86.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 75.0%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 103 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 90.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 71.7%. 19 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. National Airspace System accounts for 48% of the 6,370 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.
- 48%National Airspace System
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Extreme weather
- 7%Carrier
35% 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 6,370 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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. The split is drawn from 6,370 reported delay minutes.
48% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,069 minutes out of 6,370, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations are rare at 0.73%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.4% 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 460 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 86.1% on time across 413 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 413 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 MCI to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 413 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 79.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 408 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCI to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to MCI, the return leg
- American Airlines on MCI to DFW73.8%
- PSA Airlines on MCI to DFW64.6%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Kansas City International (MCI) delay statistics
- 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.