Carrier route record

MQBUR→PHX

Envoy Air · Burbank to Phoenix

Flights: 352
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 11%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on BUR to PHX lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 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 352 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 2,168 at 85.4% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on BUR to PHX from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

80.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.57%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.6%

Every carrier on BUR to PHX, 3,116 flights

These figures cover 352 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 BUR to PHX

Envoy flew 352 of the 3,116 flights on BUR to PHX, about 11% of it. Its 80.3% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 85.4% to American at 76.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on BUR to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	2,168	85.4%	58 min	1.15%	A
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	352	80.3%	61 min	0.57%	B+
SkyWest Airlines	525	79.5%	164 min	1.33%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	71	76.1%	78 min	0.00%	B+

No carrier stands out. Southwest tops the table at 85.4%, 6 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

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

5am–8am—
8am–11am128 flights82.8%
11am–2pm74 flights71.6%
2pm–5pm150 flights82.4%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 71.6% on time against 82.8% for 8am–11am. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 150 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on BUR to PHX through the year

Jul–Sep 202598 flights86.6%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights70.9%
Jan–Mar 202653 flights75.5%
Apr–Jun 2026121 flights83.5%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. 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 80.3% on time across 352 flights.

Envoy on BUR to PHX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.9%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 88 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.9% on time and Thursday the weakest at 73.6%. 15 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 4,235 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
61%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
15%
Carrier
8%

Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,235 reported delay minutes.

61% 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 4,235 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 are rare at 0.57%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.9% 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.

At 369 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.2% on time across 352 flights, 5 points above 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. 352 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 BUR to PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 352 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 80.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 350 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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