Carrier route record

MQPHX→MRY

Envoy Air · Phoenix to Monterey

Flights: 221
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 16%
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 MRY 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 221 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's PHX to MRY record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 85 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 216 completed flights

Avg delay

38 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.81%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.9%

Every carrier on PHX to MRY, 1,374 flights

These figures cover 221 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 MRY

Envoy flew 221 of the 1,374 flights on PHX to MRY, about 16% of it. Its 86.1% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.1% to American at 75.7%. 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 MRY
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	221	86.1%	38 min	1.81%	A
SkyWest Airlines	887	78.1%	74 min	0.79%	B+
American Airlinesthin sample	266	75.7%	74 min	1.50%	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 221 flights.

5am–8am26 flights—
8am–11am55 flights85.5%
11am–2pm52 flights83.7%
2pm–5pm61 flights81.7%
5pm–8pm27 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 85.5% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.

Across the year

Envoy on PHX to MRY through the year

Jul–Sep 202588 flights86.2%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights86.5%
Apr–Jun 202655 flights85.5%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. 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 86.1% on time across 221 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on PHX to MRY held fairly steady: 86.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.5% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 85.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of about a point is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 90.0% on time and Thursday the weakest at 80.6%. 9 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 1,125 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
41%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
25%
Security
3%

41% 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 1,125 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 41 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 1,125 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 85.5% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.81% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.45%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.4% 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.

The 598 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 runs 84.4% on time across 221 flights, within 2 points 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. 221 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 MRY

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 221 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 86.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 216 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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