Carrier route record

MQABQ→ORD

Envoy Air · Albuquerque to Chicago

Flights: 317
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 27%
Carriers: 5

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

Envoy on ABQ to ORD earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 317 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's ABQ to ORD record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 101 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 309 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.58%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.3%

Every carrier on ABQ to ORD, 1,176 flights

These figures cover 317 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on ABQ to ORD

Envoy flew 317 of the 1,176 flights on ABQ to ORD, about 27% of it. Its 87.7% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 88.1% to American at 67.5%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

On-time performance by carrier on ABQ to ORD
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	59	88.1%	55 min	0.00%	A+
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	317	87.7%	65 min	1.58%	A
United Airlines	392	79.1%	96 min	1.79%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	109	72.6%	56 min	1.83%	C
American Airlinesthin sample	299	67.5%	108 min	1.34%	C

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am211 flights91.7%
8am–11am32 flights84.4%
11am–2pm65 flights78.1%
2pm–5pm9 flights—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 78.1% on time against 91.7% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 211 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on ABQ to ORD through the year

Jul–Sep 202538 flights94.7%
Oct–Dec 2025148 flights81.9%
Jan–Mar 202694 flights92.2%
Apr–Jun 202637 flights91.9%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. 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 87.7% on time across 317 flights.

Envoy on ABQ to ORD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 94.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.9%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 79 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, Saturday is the strongest day at 92.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.6%. 13 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,484 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
Carrier
17%
Extreme weather
14%
Security
5%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,484 reported delay minutes.

33% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 825 minutes out of 2,484, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations sit at 1.58% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.95%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. 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 last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,118 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.5% on time across 320 flights, 16 points below 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 16 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 317 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 ABQ to ORD

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 317 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 87.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 309 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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