Carrier route record
MQMSY→DFW
Envoy Air · New Orleans to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 211
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 8%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on MSY to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 211 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Envoy on MSY to DFW runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 86 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 203 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.84%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
72.3%
Every carrier on MSY to DFW, 2,804 flights
These figures cover 211 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on MSY to DFW
Envoy flew 211 of the 2,804 flights on MSY to DFW, about 8% of it. Its 69.0% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 72.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 76.5% to PSA at 57.1%. Three 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 35 | 76.5% | 100 min | 2.86% | B |
| American Airlines | 2,346 | 72.7% | 101 min | 3.41% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 189 | 72.4% | 81 min | 4.23% | C− |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 211 | 69.0% | 80 min | 2.84% | C |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 23 | 57.1% | 63 min | 8.70% | 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 211 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am5 flights—
- 11am–2pm70 flights66.2%
- 2pm–5pm130 flights70.2%
- 5pm–8pm5 flights—
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 2pm–5pm window is the strongest at 70.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
Envoy on MSY to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025138 flights68.7%
- Oct–Dec 202518 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202610 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202645 flights61.9%
Scale runs 55% to 75%. 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 69.0% on time across 211 flights.
Split by quarter, Envoy on MSY to DFW logged 138 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 18 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 10 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 45 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 69.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 74.4% on time and Thursday the weakest at 60.0%. 14 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 5,034 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Carrier
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Extreme weather
- 11%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,034 reported delay minutes.
36% 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 5,034 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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.
Cancellations run at 2.84%, against 1.81% 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 costs
8.9% 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 448 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.9% on time across 211 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 211 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 MSY to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.84% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 203 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MSY to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to MSY, the return leg
- American Airlines on MSY to DFW72.7%
- Spirit Airlines on MSY to DFW72.4%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.