Carrier route record
MQMLI→DFW
Envoy Air · Moline to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 602
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 61%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on MLI to DFW earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 602 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's MLI to DFW record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 584 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.33%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.4%
Every carrier on MLI to DFW, 979 flights
These figures cover 602 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 MLI to DFW
Envoy flew 602 of the 979 flights on MLI to DFW, most of the route. Its 86.3% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.3% to PSA at 75.0%. 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) | 602 | 86.3% | 78 min | 2.33% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 58 | 82.5% | 104 min | 1.72% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 319 | 75.0% | 142 min | 4.39% | B− |
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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am256 flights87.6%
- 8am–11am55 flights92.6%
- 11am–2pm182 flights87.4%
- 2pm–5pm76 flights78.1%
- 5pm–8pm33 flights78.1%
- 8pm–5am—
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 92.6% of the time, against 78.1% for the evening 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 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. September was the busiest month here, with 88 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 93.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 81.6%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
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 6,265 reported delay minutes.
- 29%Extreme weather
- 24%National Airspace System
- 24%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 29% 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 4.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,265 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.33% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.66%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.0% 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.
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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 85.3% on time across 605 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. 602 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. 602 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 86.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 584 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.