Carrier route record

MQPHX→ABQ

Envoy Air · Phoenix to Albuquerque

Flights: 187
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 4

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

Envoy on PHX to ABQ lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 187 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 685 at 85.5% on time.

SkyWest Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 85.5% on time across 685 flights.

On time

82.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 186 completed flights

Avg delay

44 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.0%

Every carrier on PHX to ABQ, 3,311 flights

These figures cover 187 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 PHX to ABQ

Envoy flew 187 of the 3,311 flights on PHX to ABQ, about 6% of it. Its 82.3% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.5% to Southwest at 75.6%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. SkyWest Airlines arrives on time 85.5% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 75.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,880 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on PHX to ABQ
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines	685	85.5%	65 min	0.58%	A+
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	187	82.3%	44 min	0.00%	B+
American Airlines	559	81.6%	91 min	0.89%	B+
Southwest Airlines	1,880	75.6%	49 min	0.21%	B+

SkyWest leads Southwest by 10 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

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 10 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am37 flights91.9%
11am–2pm45 flights91.1%
2pm–5pm37 flights80.6%
5pm–8pm35 flights71.4%
8pm–5am33 flights72.7%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 71.4% for the evening 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 45 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on PHX to ABQ through the year

Jul–Sep 202511 flights—
Oct–Dec 202560 flights81.7%
Jan–Mar 202699 flights81.8%
Apr–Jun 202617 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 85%. 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 82.3% on time across 187 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on PHX to ABQ logged 11 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 60 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 99 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 17 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 82.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 1,449 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
61%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
7%

61% 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 1,449 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 61 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 1,449 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 91.9% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 4.3% 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 328 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.8% on time across 189 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 187 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 PHX to ABQ

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 187 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 82.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 186 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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