Carrier route record
MQORD→DFW
Envoy Air · Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 134
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 2%
- Carriers
- 7
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD 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, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 134 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 2,010 at 73.2% on time.
United Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 73.2% on time across 2,010 flights.
Key figures
On time
71.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 128 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.73%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
69.7%
Every carrier on ORD to DFW, 6,955 flights
These figures cover 134 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.3% 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 ORD to DFW
Envoy flew 134 of the 6,955 flights on ORD to DFW, about 2% of it. Its 71.9% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of seven carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.5% to Spirit at 63.6%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The three carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 8 | 87.5% | 22 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 12 | 75.0% | 65 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| United Airlines | 2,010 | 73.2% | 72 min | 1.29% | C |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 134 | 71.9% | 71 min | 3.73% | C− |
| American Airlines | 4,233 | 68.3% | 94 min | 3.87% | C− |
| Frontier Airlines | 434 | 68.0% | 85 min | 3.69% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 124 | 63.6% | 82 min | 3.23% | D− |
American Airlines cancels 3.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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 134 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's ORD to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 71.9% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202551 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202529 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202612 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202642 flights72.5%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. 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 71.9% on time across 134 flights.
Split by quarter, Envoy on ORD to DFW logged 51 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 29 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 12 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 42 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 71.9% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 2,543 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Extreme weather
- 12%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 3.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,543 reported delay minutes.
54% 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 2,543 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 3.73%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 13.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 802 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 68.5% on time across 135 flights, 3 points below 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 134 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 ORD to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.73% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 128 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to DFW, every carrier
- Envoy on DFW to ORD, the return leg
- United Airlines on ORD to DFW73.2%
- American Airlines on ORD to DFW68.3%
- Frontier Airlines on ORD to DFW68.0%
- Spirit Airlines on ORD to DFW63.6%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 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.