Carrier route record

MQSAT→DFW

Envoy Air · San Antonio to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 460
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 10%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on SAT 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 460 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 367 at 80.8% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Envoy on SAT to DFW runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 442 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.70%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.1%

Every carrier on SAT to DFW, 4,382 flights

These figures cover 460 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% 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 SAT to DFW

Envoy flew 460 of the 4,382 flights on SAT to DFW, about 10% of it. Its 71.3% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 100.0% to Envoy at 71.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

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 SAT to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlinesthin sample	5	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
SkyWest Airlines	367	80.8%	133 min	3.27%	B−
American Airlines	3,550	77.4%	107 min	3.46%	B−
Envoy Air (this page)	460	71.3%	79 min	3.70%	C−

American Airlines cancels 3.5% 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.

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 460 flights.

5am–8am1 flights—
8am–11am12 flights—
11am–2pm104 flights71.7%
2pm–5pm115 flights71.2%
5pm–8pm211 flights71.3%
8pm–5am17 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 71.7% on time. The full set of windows spans half a point.

Across the year

Envoy on SAT to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025212 flights70.2%
Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
Jan–Mar 202638 flights86.1%
Apr–Jun 2026183 flights69.5%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. 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 71.3% on time across 460 flights.

Envoy on SAT to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 86.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 69.5%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 153 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 80.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 60.3%. 20 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 10,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
47%
Extreme weather
19%
Carrier
17%
National Airspace System
16%

Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,028 reported delay minutes.

47% 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 10,000 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 3.70%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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. 10.0% 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.

At 247 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.8% on time across 460 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 460 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 SAT to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.70% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 442 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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