Carrier route record
MQMLI→DFW
Envoy Air · Moline to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 662
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 65%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on MLI to DFW earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 662 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's MLI to DFW record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 109 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 646 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.96%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.5%
Every carrier on MLI to DFW, 1,013 flights
These figures cover 662 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 MLI to DFW
Envoy flew 662 of the 1,013 flights on MLI to DFW, most of the route. Its 88.2% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 84.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.2% to PSA at 76.3%. 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) | 662 | 88.2% | 74 min | 1.96% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 58 | 82.5% | 104 min | 1.72% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 293 | 76.3% | 136 min | 4.44% | 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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am256 flights88.9%
- 8am–11am29 flights—
- 11am–2pm243 flights89.8%
- 2pm–5pm101 flights82.7%
- 5pm–8pm33 flights78.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 89.8% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 78.1%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 256 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on MLI to DFW through the year
January is the weak month at 77.8% on time, against 97.0% in October. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. August was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 94.3% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 83.7%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on MLI to DFW runs when it is late
Envoy on MLI to DFW often beats the schedule: 350 of 646 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 76 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early350 flights54.2%
- Within 15 min220 flights34.1%
- 15–29 min late22 flights3.4%
- 30–59 min late27 flights4.2%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late14 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 646 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 64 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 25 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on MLI to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 5 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across January, July, June and November, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 5 hours 2 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 8 July 2026 | 4 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 4 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 November 2025 | 4 hours 14 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 January 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
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 5,654 reported delay minutes.
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 21%Carrier
- 21%Extreme weather
- 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 5,654 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.96% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.45%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 691 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 87.9% on time across 665 flights, within half 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. 662 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 MLI to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 662 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 88.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 646 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.