Carrier route record

MQRNO→PHX

Envoy Air · Reno to Phoenix

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 RNO to PHX 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 roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 228 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 1,186 at 86.5% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's RNO to PHX record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 82 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 225 completed flights

Avg delay

51 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.88%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.7%

Every carrier on RNO to PHX, 2,416 flights

These figures cover 228 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 RNO to PHX

Envoy flew 228 of the 2,416 flights on RNO to PHX, about 9% of it. Its 85.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 85.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 100.0% to Frontier at 84.6%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 2 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 RNO to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	1	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
American Airlines	1,186	86.5%	108 min	0.84%	A+
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	228	85.8%	51 min	0.88%	A+
Southwest Airlines	961	84.7%	68 min	0.42%	B+
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	40	84.6%	87 min	2.50%	B

No carrier stands out. American tops the table at 86.5%, 2 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 228 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am141 flights88.6%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm46 flights80.4%
5pm–8pm41 flights82.1%
8pm–5am—

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 88.6% of the time, against 80.4% for the afternoon window. That is 8 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 141 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on RNO to PHX through the year

Jul–Sep 202510 flights—
Oct–Dec 202559 flights82.8%
Jan–Mar 202651 flights86.3%
Apr–Jun 2026108 flights86.0%

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 85.8% on time across 228 flights.

Quarter by quarter Envoy on RNO to PHX held fairly steady: 82.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 87.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 81.2%. 7 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 51% of the 1,642 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
51%
Carrier
28%
National Airspace System
21%

51% 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 1,642 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 51 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 1,642 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 88.6% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.88%, 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 3.6% 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 91.2% on time across 228 flights, 5 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 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 RNO to PHX

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 85.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 225 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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