Carrier route record

MQOMA→PHX

Envoy Air · Omaha to Phoenix

Flights: 271
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 14%
Carriers: 5

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

Envoy on OMA 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's OMA to PHX record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 124 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

90.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 270 completed flights

Avg delay

127 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.37%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.8%

Every carrier on OMA to PHX, 2,007 flights

These figures cover 271 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 OMA to PHX

Envoy flew 271 of the 2,007 flights on OMA to PHX, about 14% of it. Its 90.0% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 100.0% to Southwest at 79.8%. Three 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 OMA to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	3	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	271	90.0%	127 min	0.37%	A+
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	252	83.9%	97 min	1.19%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	266	80.4%	107 min	0.38%	B+
Southwest Airlines	1,215	79.8%	53 min	0.58%	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 19 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–8am79 flights93.7%
8am–11am87 flights95.4%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm58 flights87.9%
5pm–8pm47 flights76.1%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 95.4% of the time, against 76.1% for the evening window. That is 19 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 87 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on OMA to PHX through the year

Jul–Sep 2025102 flights91.2%
Oct–Dec 202547 flights89.1%
Jan–Mar 202642 flights88.1%
Apr–Jun 202680 flights90.0%

Scale runs 80% to 95%. 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 90.0% on time across 271 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on OMA to PHX held fairly steady: 91.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.0% 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 97.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 84.6%. 13 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 59% of the 3,434 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
59%
Carrier
24%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
5%

59% 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 3,434 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 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 3,434 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 95.4% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.37%, 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 4.4% 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 1,037 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 84.1% on time across 272 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 271 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 OMA to PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 271 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 90.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 270 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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