Carrier route record

MQELP→ORD

Envoy Air · El Paso to Chicago

Flights: 291
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 40%
Carriers: 5

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

Envoy on ELP 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 roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 291 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's ELP to ORD record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 99 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 288 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.69%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.7%

Every carrier on ELP to ORD, 726 flights

These figures cover 291 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 ELP to ORD

Envoy flew 291 of the 726 flights on ELP to ORD, about 40% of it. Its 87.5% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 88.4% to United at 0.0%. Four 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 ELP to ORD
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	45	88.4%	99 min	4.44%	A−
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	291	87.5%	48 min	0.69%	A+
Republic Airwaysthin sample	126	84.8%	119 min	0.79%	B+
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	262	76.0%	60 min	2.29%	B
United Airlinesthin sample	2	0.0%	30 min	0.00%	F+

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 291 flights.

5am–8am254 flights87.6%
8am–11am37 flights86.5%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5am–8am window is the strongest at 87.6% on time. The full set of windows spans about a point.

Across the year

Envoy on ELP to ORD through the year

Jul–Sep 202563 flights81.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.6%
Apr–Jun 202646 flights95.6%

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 87.5% on time across 291 flights.

Envoy on ELP to ORD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 81.0%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 73 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, Monday is the strongest day at 95.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 77.5%. 18 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 1,732 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
38%
Carrier
36%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
Extreme weather
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 615 of the 1,732 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,732 reported delay minutes.

38% 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 659 minutes out of 1,732, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations are rare at 0.69%, 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 2.4% 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 1,236 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 70.8% on time across 292 flights, 17 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 17 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 291 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 ELP to ORD

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 291 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 87.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 288 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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