Regional operator · on-time record
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Envoy Air
- Flights
- 313,065
- Period
- June 2025 to May 2026
- Airports
- 25
- US rank
- #7 by volume
Envoy Air lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.4%. About one flight in five arrive 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 313,065 flights, of which Phoenix (PHX) flew 9,964 at 85.3% on time.
Phoenix (PHX) is the most reliable of the 25 airports covered here at 85.3% on time across 9,964 flights.
Envoy Air flies under mainline brands rather than selling tickets in its own name, so a flight in this record may have been booked as American, Delta or United. The DOT reports it under the operating carrier, which is why it appears here separately.
Key figures
On time
79.7%
National average is 77.4%
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
2.15%
National rate is 1.80%
Largest base
DFW
63,507 departures, 81.7% on time
These figures cover 313,000 flights between June 2025 and May 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.
Airport by airport
Where Envoy Air runs well, and where it does not
The choice of airport is not cosmetic here. Phoenix (PHX) arrives on time 85.3% of the time; Nashville (BNA) manages 74.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 2,120 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airport | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth | 63,507 | 81.7% | 54 min | 2.11% | B |
| ORD · Chicago | 56,953 | 75.6% | 61 min | 2.53% | B |
| MIA · Miami | 13,572 | 82.7% | 49 min | 0.95% | B+ |
| PHX · Phoenix | 9,964 | 85.3% | 49 min | 0.70% | A+ |
| XNA · Bentonville | 6,015 | 82.4% | 74 min | 1.48% | B |
| CLT · Charlotte | 5,807 | 82.8% | 60 min | 1.98% | B |
| DCA · Washington | 4,921 | 77.2% | 73 min | 4.25% | B− |
| SGF · Springfield | 4,305 | 79.6% | 72 min | 1.67% | B |
| LIT · Little Rock | 3,696 | 77.7% | 65 min | 1.68% | B |
| CMH · Columbus | 3,087 | 78.9% | 82 min | 0.97% | B+ |
| CVG · Cincinnati | 2,543 | 78.0% | 70 min | 1.65% | B |
| BHM · Birmingham | 2,377 | 81.8% | 66 min | 1.14% | B |
| COU · Columbia | 2,250 | 78.8% | 82 min | 2.58% | B |
| FAR · Fargo | 2,245 | 80.4% | 74 min | 1.74% | B |
| EYW · Key West | 2,127 | 78.1% | 71 min | 1.08% | B |
| BNA · Nashville | 2,120 | 74.8% | 69 min | 2.55% | C |
| GSO · Greensboro | 2,099 | 84.0% | 67 min | 2.19% | B |
| AMA · Amarillo | 2,002 | 84.3% | 69 min | 2.20% | B |
| BOS · Boston | 1,992 | 79.2% | 75 min | 2.06% | B |
| CID · Cedar Rapids | 1,979 | 80.0% | 71 min | 2.12% | B |
| TUL · Tulsa | 1,948 | 79.6% | 64 min | 2.36% | B |
| ICT · Wichita | 1,915 | 80.2% | 66 min | 2.77% | B |
| ATW · Appleton | 1,831 | 80.5% | 72 min | 2.68% | B |
| PNS · Pensacola | 1,823 | 80.4% | 65 min | 1.87% | B |
| MAF · Midland | 1,805 | 82.8% | 70 min | 2.38% | B |
Washington (DCA) cancels 4.3% 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.
Route by route
Busiest Envoy Air routes
These are the 25 routes Envoy Air flies most often, each against its network-wide 79.7%. Route-level variation inside a single airline is routinely wider than the gap between two airlines nationally.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to SGF | 2,641 | 80.1% | 52 min | 1.82% | B |
| SGF to DFW | 2,640 | 79.2% | 71 min | 1.78% | B |
| DFW to XNA | 2,477 | 82.7% | 58 min | 1.86% | B |
| XNA to DFW | 2,472 | 81.1% | 77 min | 1.86% | B |
| AMA to DFW | 2,002 | 84.3% | 69 min | 2.20% | B |
| DFW to AMA | 2,001 | 84.0% | 55 min | 2.10% | B |
| DFW to MAF | 1,805 | 80.5% | 53 min | 2.33% | B |
| MAF to DFW | 1,804 | 82.8% | 70 min | 2.38% | B |
| DFW to ABI | 1,750 | 79.8% | 55 min | 2.34% | B |
| ABI to DFW | 1,750 | 81.6% | 64 min | 2.23% | B |
| CRP to DFW | 1,708 | 83.1% | 64 min | 1.81% | B |
| DFW to CRP | 1,707 | 82.3% | 54 min | 1.82% | B |
| LIT to DFW | 1,592 | 73.8% | 71 min | 2.14% | C |
| DFW to LIT | 1,590 | 80.5% | 57 min | 2.20% | B |
| XNA to ORD | 1,545 | 75.0% | 80 min | 1.49% | B |
| ORD to XNA | 1,542 | 76.3% | 67 min | 1.49% | B |
| LBB to DFW | 1,494 | 83.9% | 81 min | 1.20% | B |
| DFW to LBB | 1,493 | 84.0% | 56 min | 1.14% | B |
| HPN to ORD | 1,477 | 78.3% | 85 min | 3.45% | B− |
| ORD to HPN | 1,477 | 77.3% | 61 min | 3.25% | B− |
| LRD to DFW | 1,400 | 82.8% | 74 min | 2.43% | B |
| DFW to LRD | 1,400 | 82.4% | 50 min | 2.57% | B |
| ORD to CMH | 1,391 | 73.4% | 70 min | 1.73% | C |
| CMH to ORD | 1,388 | 74.2% | 95 min | 1.80% | C |
| ORD to GRB | 1,371 | 73.2% | 64 min | 3.43% | C− |
Departure window
The best time of day to fly Envoy Air
Departure time matters more here than the choice of airport. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against 11 points between the best and worst airport. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am50,573 flights88.1%
- 8am–11am58,583 flights85.2%
- 11am–2pm52,367 flights81.1%
- 2pm–5pm56,908 flights76.7%
- 5pm–8pm57,085 flights71.6%
- 8pm–5am37,549 flights74.7%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.1% of the time, against 71.6% for the evening window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on.
Across the year
Envoy Air through the calendar
Twelve months, one bar each, drawn from the same 313,065 flights. The strip shows how much of Envoy's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
June is the worst month at 73.0% on time, 11 points below September, the best at 84.1%. 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.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.6%. 7 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
What holds Envoy Air up
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 4.05 million 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.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 19%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure.
45% 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 4.05 million reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 sit at 2.15% against a national 1.80%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
6.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.2%. 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 are the about an hour kind, which a normal layover absorbs.
313,065 flights sit behind these numbers, which is a large enough sample that the headline rate is not moving on noise. Where a sub-group falls below 30 flights the site shows a dash instead of a percentage.
What to do with this
Booking Envoy Air
Put together: avoid the 5pm–8pm departure. It runs 71.6% on time against 88.1% for the 5am–8am slot, and that 17 points is the largest single thing you control here. Phoenix (PHX) is the strongest operator if the fares are close.
Common questions
Envoy Air reliability questions
How often is Envoy Air delayed?
About one flight in five arrive at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.3% of the 313,065 flights in this analysis, against 22.6% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airport does Envoy Air run best from?
Phoenix (PHX) leads at 85.3% on time across 9,964 flights. Nashville (BNA) is at the other end on 74.8%, a gap of 11 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 Envoy Air?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 88.1% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 71.6%, 17 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 Envoy Air?
June is the weakest month at 73.0% on time, compared with 84.1% in September. Across the year that is 11 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
- Envoy Air at DFW — Dallas-Fort Worth81.7%
- Envoy Air at ORD — Chicago75.6%
- Envoy Air at MIA — Miami82.7%
- Envoy Air at PHX — Phoenix85.3%
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics82.8%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, June 2025 to May 2026. Updated monthly. How this data is collected.