Carrier route record

MQMRY→PHX

Envoy Air · Monterey to Phoenix

Flights: 221
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 16%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on MRY to PHX earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 221 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's MRY to PHX record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 68 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 218 completed flights

Avg delay

44 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.36%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.7%

Every carrier on MRY to PHX, 1,375 flights

These figures cover 221 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 MRY to PHX

Envoy flew 221 of the 1,375 flights on MRY to PHX, about 16% of it. Its 84.4% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.4% to SkyWest at 81.1%. 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 MRY to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	221	84.4%	44 min	1.36%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	267	81.5%	112 min	1.87%	B
SkyWest Airlines	887	81.1%	111 min	1.01%	B

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–8am35 flights94.3%
8am–11am26 flights—
11am–2pm100 flights80.6%
2pm–5pm34 flights73.5%
5pm–8pm26 flights—
8pm–5am—

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

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.3% of the time, against 73.5% for the afternoon 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 100 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on MRY to PHX through the year

Jul–Sep 202587 flights86.2%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights82.9%
Apr–Jun 202655 flights83.6%

Scale runs 75% 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 84.4% on time across 221 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on MRY to PHX held fairly steady: 86.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.9% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 83.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 87.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 77.8%. 9 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 63% of the 1,482 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
63%
National Airspace System
21%
Carrier
14%
Extreme weather
2%

63% 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 1,482 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 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 1,482 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 94.3% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.36% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% 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 598 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 runs 86.1% on time across 221 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 221 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 MRY to PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 221 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 84.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 218 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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