Route reliability record
SHV→DFW
Shreveport to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 2,127
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 190 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.6% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 2,127 SHV to DFW flights, of which Envoy Air flew 424 at 81.9% on time.
Best time to fly SHV to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Thursday. Flights in that window arrived on time 87.4% of the time and Thursday flights 82.1%, against 77.4% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,045 completed flights
Avg delay
109 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.62%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
81.9% on time across 424 flights
These figures cover 2,127 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on SHV to DFW
The two carriers here are closely matched: 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 424 | 81.9% | 95 min | 4.95% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,436 | 76.4% | 115 min | 3.27% | B− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 267 | 75.5% | 97 min | 3.37% | B− |
Envoy Air cancels 5.0% 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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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Shreveport to Dallas-Fort Worth
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. SHV → DFWShreveport to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 77.8% | 81.9% | 4.95% | 11am–2pm, Wed | — |
| 2. SHV → DFWShreveport to Dallas-Fort Worth | SkyWest Airlines | 73.9% | 76.4% | 3.27% | 5am–8am, Thu | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 22 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am432 flights87.4%
- 8am–11am649 flights79.9%
- 11am–2pm355 flights78.0%
- 2pm–5pm165 flights74.2%
- 5pm–8pm377 flights65.4%
- 8pm–5am149 flights68.3%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.4% of the time, against 65.4% for the evening window. That is 22 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 649 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter SHV to DFW by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On SHV to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 87.4% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 65.4%, a wide gap of 22.0 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am87.4%
- 8–11am79.9%
- 11am–2pm78.0%
- 2–5pm74.2%
- 5–8pm65.4%
- 8pm–5am68.3%
best all US flightsScale 55% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 14 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 69.3% on time, 14 points below February, the best at 83.2%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. June was the busiest month here, with 209 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 82.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 68.4%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 51,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
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 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 50,550 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 24,000 of the 51,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.62%, against 1.89% 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 actually costs
10.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 190 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 76.5% on time across 2,127 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 2,127 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.62% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 2,045 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SHV to DFW questions
How often is SHV to DFW delayed?
Roughly one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 22.6% of the 2,127 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
Which airline is most reliable on SHV to DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 81.9% on time across 424 flights. SkyWest Airlines is at the other end on 76.4%, a gap of 6 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on SHV to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 87.4% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 65.4%, 22 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on SHV to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 69.3% on time, compared with 83.2% in February. Across the year that is 14 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to SHV — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on SHV to DFW81.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on SHV to DFW76.4%
- PSA Airlines on SHV to DFW75.5%
- SHV to ATL, a related route83.3%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- SHV to IAH, a related route78.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record81.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record76.4%
- PSA Airlines on-time record75.5%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
Direction matters. SHV to DFW and DFW to SHV are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.