Carrier route record

MQABQ→PHX

Envoy Air · Albuquerque to Phoenix

Flights: 189
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on ABQ to PHX earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 189 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 686 at 86.0% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's ABQ to PHX record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 92 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 189 completed flights

Avg delay

42 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.4%

Every carrier on ABQ to PHX, 3,317 flights

These figures cover 189 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 PHX

Envoy flew 189 of the 3,317 flights on ABQ to PHX, about 6% of it. Its 86.8% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.8% to American at 79.7%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. SkyWest Airlines arrives on time 86.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 79.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 558 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on ABQ to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	189	86.8%	42 min	0.00%	A+
SkyWest Airlines	686	86.0%	82 min	0.73%	A+
Southwest Airlines	1,884	81.5%	55 min	0.32%	B+
American Airlines	558	79.7%	141 min	1.08%	B

SkyWest leads American by 6 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

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 23 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am20 flights—
8am–11am48 flights79.2%
11am–2pm37 flights100.0%
2pm–5pm44 flights88.6%
5pm–8pm39 flights76.9%
8pm–5am1 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 100.0% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 76.9%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 48 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on ABQ to PHX through the year

Jul–Sep 202511 flights—
Oct–Dec 202559 flights91.5%
Jan–Mar 2026101 flights85.1%
Apr–Jun 202618 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 95%. 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 86.8% on time across 189 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on ABQ to PHX logged 11 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 59 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 101 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 18 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 86.8% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 1,046 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
52%
National Airspace System
43%
Carrier
5%

52% 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 1,046 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 52 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. The split is drawn from 1,046 reported delay minutes.

43% 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 449 minutes out of 1,046, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 328 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 82.3% on time across 187 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 189 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 PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 189 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 86.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 189 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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