Carrier route record
MQPIA→DFW
Envoy Air · Peoria to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 185
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 18%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on PIA to DFW lands a B−, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 185 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's PIA to DFW record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 51 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 179 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.24%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
78.2%
Every carrier on PIA to DFW, 1,057 flights
These figures cover 185 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 PIA to DFW
Envoy flew 185 of the 1,057 flights on PIA to DFW, about 18% of it. Its 82.7% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.7% to PSA at 77.2%.
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)thin sample | 185 | 82.7% | 68 min | 3.24% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 872 | 77.2% | 109 min | 3.78% | B− |
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 185 flights.
- 5am–8am13 flights—
- 8am–11am54 flights82.7%
- 11am–2pm19 flights—
- 2pm–5pm55 flights82.7%
- 5pm–8pm44 flights74.4%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 82.7% of the time, against 74.4% for the evening window. That is 8 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 55 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on PIA to DFW through the year
- Oct–Dec 2025106 flights83.2%
- Jan–Mar 202635 flights91.4%
- Apr–Jun 202644 flights74.4%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. 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 82.7% on time across 185 flights.
Envoy on PIA to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 91.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 74.4%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 62 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
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 2,106 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
42% 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 2,106 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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. The split is drawn from 2,106 reported delay minutes.
34% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 706 minutes out of 2,106, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 3.24%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
7.8% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 672 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 83.2% on time across 185 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. 185 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 PIA to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.24% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 179 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.