Carrier route record
MQSBA→PHX
Envoy Air · Santa Barbara to Phoenix
- Flights
- 367
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 26%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on SBA 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 367 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 649 at 86.0% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's SBA to PHX record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 95 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
85.7%
Every carrier on SBA to PHX, 1,432 flights
These figures cover 367 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on SBA to PHX
Envoy flew 367 of the 1,432 flights on SBA to PHX, about 26% of it. Its 86.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 85.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 87.5% to SkyWest at 84.1%. One 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 8 | 87.5% | 56 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 367 | 86.8% | 74 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 649 | 86.0% | 155 min | 1.23% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 408 | 84.1% | 77 min | 0.98% | B+ |
No carrier stands out. American tops the table at 86.0%, 2 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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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 367 flights.
- 5am–8am3 flights—
- 8am–11am150 flights89.3%
- 11am–2pm104 flights87.5%
- 2pm–5pm106 flights81.6%
- 5pm–8pm4 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 89.3% on time for the 8am–11am window against 81.6% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 150 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on SBA to PHX through the year
- Jul–Sep 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 2025130 flights84.4%
- Jan–Mar 202629 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights90.0%
- Jul–Sep 202689 flights88.8%
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 86.8% on time across 367 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on SBA to PHX held fairly steady: 84.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.8% in Jul–Sep 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 91.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 82.1%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on SBA to PHX runs when it is late
Envoy on SBA to PHX often beats the schedule: 104 of 364 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 48 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights28.6%
- Within 15 min212 flights58.2%
- 15–29 min late17 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 50 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. Only 7 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on SBA to PHX
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 July 2026, 10 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2026 | 10 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 January 2026 | 4 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 June 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 December 2025 | 3 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 November 2025 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 78% of the 3,559 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 78%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
78% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,559 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 52 to one. The split is drawn from 3,559 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 89.3% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, below the national 1.89% 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
5.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 455 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 88.1% on time across 366 flights, within about 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. 367 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 SBA to PHX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 367 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 86.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 364 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SBA to PHX, every carrier
- Envoy on PHX to SBA, the return leg
- American Airlines on SBA to PHX86.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on SBA to PHX84.1%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.