DFW to MFE flight delays
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) Mission/McAllen/Edinburg, TX (MFE) · 469 miles
2,410 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
70.65%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.86%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
75 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
23 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. SkyWest Airlines arrived on time 23.9 points more often than American Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.86% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The two directions do not behave alike. MFE to DFW arrives on time 8 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
Flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Mission/McAllen/Edinburg run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, SkyWest Airlines arrived on time most often on DFW to MFE. American Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in February and worst in April.
Every airline on DFW to MFE
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 1,580 | 65% | 3.42% | 82 min | F |
| Envoy Air | 729 | 80.14% | 1.78% | 50 min | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 101 | 88.89% | 1.98% | 62 min | B |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Other routes from Dallas/Fort Worth
Common questions
Are flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Mission/McAllen/Edinburg usually delayed?
70.65% of flights on the DFW to MFE route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Dallas/Fort Worth to Mission/McAllen/Edinburg?
SkyWest Airlines, at 88.89% on time across 101 flights. The least punctual on the route was American Airlines at 65%.
How often are DFW to MFE flights cancelled?
2.86% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 29 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Dallas/Fort Worth to Mission/McAllen/Edinburg?
February, when 80.9% of flights arrived on time. The worst was April at 63.1%.
When DFW to MFE flights are late, how late are they?
About 75 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on DFW to MFE during January 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →