Carrier route record

MQCID→PHX

Envoy Air · Cedar Rapids to Phoenix

Flights: 260
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 34%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on CID to PHX 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 260 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's CID to PHX record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 107 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.77%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.4%

Every carrier on CID to PHX, 772 flights

These figures cover 260 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 CID to PHX

Envoy flew 260 of the 772 flights on CID to PHX, about 34% of it. Its 88.3% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.3% to American at 74.6%. One 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 CID to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	260	88.3%	62 min	0.77%	A+
SkyWest Airlines	440	80.1%	139 min	1.59%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	72	74.6%	61 min	1.39%	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 21 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–8am40 flights89.2%
8am–11am92 flights95.7%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm79 flights87.3%
5pm–8pm48 flights75.0%
8pm–5am1 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 95.7% of the time, against 75.0% for the evening window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 92 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on CID to PHX through the year

Jul–Sep 202572 flights95.8%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights88.4%
Jan–Mar 202657 flights84.2%
Apr–Jun 202642 flights81.0%

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 88.3% on time across 260 flights.

Envoy on CID to PHX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 95.8% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.0%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 65 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, Friday is the strongest day at 92.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 81.6%. 11 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 50% of the 1,847 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
50%
Carrier
23%
Extreme weather
13%
National Airspace System
11%
Security
4%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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. The split is drawn from 1,847 reported delay minutes.

50% 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 1,847 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 0.77%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.3% 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.

The 1,252 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 81.5% on time across 261 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 260 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 CID to PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 260 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 88.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 257 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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