Carrier route record

MQMIA→TPA

Envoy Air · Miami to Tampa

Flights: 352
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 12%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on MIA to TPA lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 352 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's MIA to TPA record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 41 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 338 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.69%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

70.6%

Every carrier on MIA to TPA, 2,947 flights

These figures cover 352 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 MIA to TPA

Envoy flew 352 of the 2,947 flights on MIA to TPA, about 12% of it. Its 81.7% on time is 11 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.7% to Republic at 65.4%. 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 MIA to TPA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	352	81.7%	48 min	3.69%	B−
American Airlines	2,569	69.2%	81 min	0.82%	C+
Republic Airwaysthin sample	26	65.4%	54 min	0.00%	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 12 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–8am—
8am–11am19 flights—
11am–2pm5 flights—
2pm–5pm149 flights86.5%
5pm–8pm147 flights77.3%
8pm–5am32 flights75.0%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 86.5% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 75.0%. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 149 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on MIA to TPA through the year

Jul–Sep 202552 flights73.1%
Oct–Dec 2025117 flights83.8%
Jan–Mar 2026116 flights82.5%
Apr–Jun 202667 flights83.6%

Scale runs 65% 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 81.7% on time across 352 flights.

Envoy on MIA to TPA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 83.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 73.1%, a swing of 11 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, Friday is the strongest day at 91.7% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 75.6%. 16 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 2,945 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
36%
Late-arriving aircraft
36%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
7%

36% 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 2,945 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 2,945 reported delay minutes.

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 1,069 of the 2,945 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 3.69%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% 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 204 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 73.2% on time across 352 flights, 9 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 9 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 MIA to TPA

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.69% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you roughly 50 minutes; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 338 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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