Carrier route record

MQPHX→ELP

Envoy Air · Phoenix to El Paso

Flights: 318
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
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 ELP earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 318 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 851 at 80.0% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's PHX to ELP record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.63%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.1%

Every carrier on PHX to ELP, 2,498 flights

These figures cover 318 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 PHX to ELP

Envoy flew 318 of the 2,498 flights on PHX to ELP, about 13% of it. Its 85.4% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.4% to Southwest at 74.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on PHX to ELP
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	318	85.4%	58 min	0.63%	A+
SkyWest Airlines	851	80.0%	82 min	0.82%	B+
American Airlinesthin sample	119	79.0%	76 min	0.00%	B+
Southwest Airlines	1,210	74.7%	47 min	0.66%	C+

No carrier stands out. SkyWest tops the table at 80.0%, 5 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

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 12 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am82 flights90.2%
11am–2pm79 flights85.9%
2pm–5pm56 flights82.1%
5pm–8pm56 flights87.3%
8pm–5am45 flights77.8%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.2% of the time, against 77.8% for the overnight window. That is 12 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 82 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on PHX to ELP through the year

Jul–Sep 202579 flights88.6%
Oct–Dec 2025111 flights82.6%
Jan–Mar 202682 flights87.8%
Apr–Jun 202646 flights82.6%

Scale runs 75% 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 85.4% on time across 318 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on PHX to ELP held fairly steady: 88.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 82.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 92.1% on time and Friday the weakest at 79.5%. 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 63% of the 2,670 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%
Carrier
23%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
4%

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 2,670 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 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 2,670 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 90.2% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.63%, 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 4.7% 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 347 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 runs 84.8% on time across 318 flights, within half a point 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. 318 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 ELP

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 318 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 85.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 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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