Carrier route record
MQMFE→DFW
Envoy Air · McAllen to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 661
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 27%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on MFE to DFW earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 661 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's MFE to DFW record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 76 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 649 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.51%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.5%
Every carrier on MFE to DFW, 2,445 flights
These figures cover 661 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 MFE to DFW
Envoy flew 661 of the 2,445 flights on MFE to DFW, about 27% of it. Its 84.9% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.9% to American at 78.3%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 101 | 87.9% | 50 min | 1.98% | A |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 661 | 84.9% | 104 min | 1.51% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,683 | 78.3% | 127 min | 3.21% | B− |
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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 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am3 flights—
- 8am–11am150 flights93.2%
- 11am–2pm147 flights86.9%
- 2pm–5pm44 flights90.7%
- 5pm–8pm227 flights79.5%
- 8pm–5am90 flights78.2%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 93.2% of the time, against 78.2% for the overnight 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 227 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on MFE to DFW through the year
June is the worst month at 80.0% on time, 17 points below February, the best at 96.8%. 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 110 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 91.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.3%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on MFE to DFW runs when it is late
Envoy on MFE to DFW often beats the schedule: 230 of 649 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 98 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 37 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 40 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early230 flights35.4%
- Within 15 min321 flights49.5%
- 15–29 min late21 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late37 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late23 flights3.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 649 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
30 of 123 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on MFE to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 May 2026, 20 hours 24 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across May, March and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | 20 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 5 March 2026 | 18 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 June 2026 | 11 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 March 2026 | 5 hours 56 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 22 June 2026 | 4 hours 30 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 10,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Extreme weather
- 21%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 35% 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 5.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,149 reported delay minutes.
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 1 to one.
Cancellations sit at 1.51% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.2% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 469 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 83.5% on time across 660 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 661 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 MFE to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 661 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 84.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 649 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MFE to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to MFE, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on MFE to DFW87.9%
- American Airlines on MFE to DFW78.3%
- 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 7.05 million flight records
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.