Carrier route record

MQPHX→BFL

Envoy Air · Phoenix to Bakersfield

Flights: 116
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 9%
Carriers: 3

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

Envoy on PHX to BFL lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About 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 116 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on PHX to BFL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

79.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 116 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.1%

Every carrier on PHX to BFL, 1,288 flights

These figures cover 116 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 BFL

Envoy flew 116 of the 1,288 flights on PHX to BFL, about 9% of it. Its 79.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 80.9% to Envoy at 79.3%. 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 PHX to BFL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	350	80.9%	81 min	1.14%	B
SkyWest Airlines	822	79.8%	87 min	2.31%	B
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	116	79.3%	48 min	0.00%	B+

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 116 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am3 flights—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm3 flights—
5pm–8pm62 flights82.3%
8pm–5am48 flights72.9%

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

The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 82.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 9 points.

Across the year

Envoy on PHX to BFL through the year

Jul–Sep 2025109 flights78.0%
Oct–Dec 20255 flights—
Apr–Jun 20262 flights—

Scale runs 70% 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 79.3% on time across 116 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on PHX to BFL logged 109 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 5 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 2 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 79.3% 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 87% of the 1,159 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
87%
Carrier
9%
National Airspace System
4%

87% 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 1,159 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 87 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 1,159 reported delay minutes.

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

6.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 425 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 88.8% on time across 117 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 116 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 BFL

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 116 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 79.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 116 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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