Carrier route record

MQPHX→RNO

Envoy Air · Phoenix to Reno

Flights: 228
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 9%
Carriers: 5

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

Envoy on PHX to RNO 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 55 minutes. That rests on 228 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 1,186 at 82.4% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's PHX to RNO record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 136 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 227 completed flights

Avg delay

54 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.44%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.2%

Every carrier on PHX to RNO, 2,416 flights

These figures cover 228 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 RNO

Envoy flew 228 of the 2,416 flights on PHX to RNO, about 9% of it. Its 91.2% on time is 11 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 100.0% to Southwest at 74.8%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 82.4% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 74.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 961 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on PHX to RNO
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	1	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	228	91.2%	54 min	0.44%	A+
American Airlines	1,186	82.4%	70 min	0.76%	B+
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	40	82.1%	86 min	2.50%	B
Southwest Airlines	961	74.8%	46 min	0.31%	C+

American leads Southwest by 8 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 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 228 flights.

5am–8am74 flights93.2%
8am–11am67 flights92.4%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm77 flights87.0%
5pm–8pm10 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 93.2% on time for the 5am–8am window against 87.0% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 77 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on PHX to RNO through the year

Jul–Sep 202510 flights—
Oct–Dec 202559 flights91.4%
Jan–Mar 202651 flights94.1%
Apr–Jun 2026108 flights88.9%

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 91.2% on time across 228 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on PHX to RNO held fairly steady: 91.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 88.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 96.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 81.8%. 15 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 53% of the 1,085 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
53%
Carrier
37%
National Airspace System
10%

53% 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 1,085 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 53 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 1,085 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 401 of the 1,085 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.44%, 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 2.6% 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 601 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.8% on time across 228 flights, 5 points below 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. 228 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 RNO

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 228 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 91.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 227 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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