Route reliability record
MLU→DFW
Monroe to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,166
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 293 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route 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 7 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 1,166 MLU to DFW flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly MLU to DFW: a 2pm–5pm departure, ideally on a Thursday. Flights in that window arrived on time 94.1% of the time and Thursday flights 88.8%, against 84.4% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 71 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,131 completed flights
Avg delay
107 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
85.6% on time across 1,035 flights
These figures cover 1,166 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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
Which airline is most reliable on MLU to DFW
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 | 1,035 | 85.6% | 108 min | 2.42% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 131 | 74.2% | 102 min | 5.34% | C− |
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am357 flights89.1%
- 8am–11am319 flights86.9%
- 11am–2pm134 flights80.3%
- 2pm–5pm37 flights94.1%
- 5pm–8pm319 flights77.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 94.1% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 77.0%. 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 357 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter MLU to DFW by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On MLU to DFW, the best departure window is 2pm–5pm at 94.1% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 77.0%, a wide gap of 17.1 points. All US flights leaving 2pm–5pm ran 71.9%.
- 5–8am89.1%
- 8–11am86.9%
- 11am–2pm80.3%
- 2–5pm94.1%
- 5–8pm77.0%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 100%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 24 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
Delays peak in November, when the on-time rate falls to 74.7%. February is the strongest month at 98.5%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 24 points. August was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 88.8% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 78.9%, a spread of 10 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 19,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%Extreme weather
- 12%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 18,958 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,972 of the 19,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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 actually costs
6.3% 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 293 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 85.6% on time across 1,166 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,166 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.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 98.5% on time and November 74.7%, a swing of 24 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of November before you think about anything else. 1,131 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
MLU to DFW questions
How often is MLU to DFW delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 15.6% of the 1,166 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is MLU to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
84.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 7 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on MLU to DFW?
The 2pm–5pm departure window is the strongest at 94.1% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 77.0%, 17 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are November delays on MLU to DFW?
November is the weakest month at 74.7% on time, compared with 98.5% in February. Across the year that is 24 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to MLU — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on MLU to DFW85.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on MLU to DFW74.2%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- ATL to DFW, a related route73.9%
- LGA to DFW, a related route70.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record85.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record74.2%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. MLU to DFW and DFW to MLU are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.