Carrier route record

MQPNS→DFW

Envoy Air · Pensacola to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 237
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 14%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on PNS to DFW lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 237 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 1,087 at 73.0% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's PNS to DFW record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 45 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 236 completed flights

Avg delay

72 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.42%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

73.7%

Every carrier on PNS to DFW, 1,706 flights

These figures cover 237 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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

Envoy against every carrier on PNS to DFW

Envoy flew 237 of the 1,706 flights on PNS to DFW, about 14% of it. Its 81.8% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.8% to PSA at 70.1%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 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.

On-time performance by carrier on PNS to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	237	81.8%	72 min	0.42%	B+
American Airlines	1,087	73.0%	122 min	2.85%	C
PSA Airlines	382	70.1%	121 min	6.54%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 6.5% 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.

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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 237 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am138 flights83.9%
11am–2pm29 flights—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm70 flights75.7%
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 83.9% of the time, against 75.7% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 138 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on PNS to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
Oct–Dec 202533 flights90.6%
Jan–Mar 202648 flights83.3%
Apr–Jun 202662 flights64.5%
Jul–Sep 202664 flights90.6%

Scale runs 55% to 95%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 81.8% on time across 237 flights.

Envoy on PNS to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 90.6% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 64.5%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 47 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.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 88.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 64.7%, a spread of 24 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Envoy on PNS to DFW runs when it is late

Envoy on PNS to DFW often beats the schedule: 95 of 236 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 43 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.

15+ min early95 flights40.3%
Within 15 min98 flights41.5%
15–29 min late11 flights4.7%
30–59 min late17 flights7.2%
1–2 hours late6 flights2.5%
2+ hours late9 flights3.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 236 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

13 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on PNS to DFW

The latest arrival of the period was on 4 September 2025, 5 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on PNS to DFW in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
4 September 2025	5 hours 32 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
8 June 2026	4 hours 3 minutes	Carrier
15 March 2026	3 hours 27 minutes	Extreme weather
25 May 2026	2 hours 40 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
24 September 2025	2 hours 24 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 63% of the 3,105 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
63%
National Airspace System
16%
Carrier
11%
Extreme weather
10%

63% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,105 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 3,105 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 83.9% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.42%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.4% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 604 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.

The return leg runs 82.2% on time across 237 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. 237 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 PNS to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 237 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 81.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 236 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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