Carrier route record

MQPHX→FAT

Envoy Air · Phoenix to Fresno

Flights: 105
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 7%
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 FAT 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 30 minutes. That rests on 105 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 802 at 80.0% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's PHX to FAT record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 138 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 105 completed flights

Avg delay

31 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.3%

Every carrier on PHX to FAT, 1,452 flights

These figures cover 105 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 FAT

Envoy flew 105 of the 1,452 flights on PHX to FAT, about 7% of it. Its 91.4% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 91.4% to SkyWest at 75.8%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 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 FAT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	105	91.4%	31 min	0.00%	A+
American Airlines	802	80.0%	87 min	0.87%	B+
SkyWest Airlines	545	75.8%	78 min	0.18%	B+

No carrier stands out. American tops the table at 80.0%, 4 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 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 105 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's PHX to FAT record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 91.4% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Envoy on PHX to FAT through the year

Oct–Dec 202510 flights—
Jan–Mar 202648 flights93.8%
Apr–Jun 202647 flights89.4%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. 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 91.4% on time across 105 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on PHX to FAT logged 10 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 48 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 47 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 91.4% 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 72% of the 275 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
72%
Carrier
15%
National Airspace System
13%

72% 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 275 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 72 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 275 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

At 493 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 91.4% on time across 105 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. 105 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 FAT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 105 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 91.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 105 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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