Carrier route record

MQORD→ABQ

Envoy Air · Chicago to Albuquerque

Flights: 320
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 27%
Carriers: 5

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

Envoy on ORD to ABQ sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Envoy on ORD to ABQ runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 61 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.25%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

70.8%

Every carrier on ORD to ABQ, 1,178 flights

These figures cover 320 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on ORD to ABQ

Envoy flew 320 of the 1,178 flights on ORD to ABQ, about 27% of it. Its 71.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 70.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 78.3% to SkyWest at 58.3%. 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 ORD to ABQ
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	60	78.3%	79 min	0.00%	B+
United Airlines	392	75.3%	60 min	0.77%	B+
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	320	71.5%	71 min	1.25%	C
American Airlinesthin sample	298	67.0%	63 min	1.01%	C
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	108	58.3%	80 min	4.63%	D−

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 320 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am66 flights75.8%
11am–2pm12 flights—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm56 flights69.6%
8pm–5am186 flights69.2%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 75.8% on time for the 8am–11am window against 69.2% for 8pm–5am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 186 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on ORD to ABQ through the year

Jul–Sep 202539 flights76.9%
Oct–Dec 2025149 flights70.7%
Jan–Mar 202695 flights73.1%
Apr–Jun 202637 flights64.9%

Scale runs 55% to 80%. 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 71.5% on time across 320 flights.

Envoy on ORD to ABQ did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 76.9% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 64.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 80 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 79.1% on time and Friday the weakest at 62.8%. 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 6,348 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
22%
Carrier
15%

Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,348 reported delay minutes.

38% 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 6,348 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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 sit at 1.25% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 1,118 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 87.7% on time across 317 flights, 16 points above 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 16 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 320 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 ORD to ABQ

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 320 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 71.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 316 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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