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Airport month · August 2023
Phoenix Sky Harbor International in August 2023
BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.
In August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 14,304 domestic departures from Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX). 77.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.2% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so PHX departures were 1.0 points above the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at PHX that month were on time 79.2% of the time (14,304 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 10%.
- On time 79.2%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.3%
- Cancelled 1.3%
- Diverted 0.2%
August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Aug 2023 | Year earlier | PHX, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Aug 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 77.7% | — | 76.1% | 76.7% |
| Arrived on time | 79.2% | — | 77.4% | 76.9% |
| Cancelled | 1.3% | — | 0.9% | 1.5% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 16.2 min | — | 15.8 min | 17.3 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 477 | — | 542 | 20,100 |
| Scheduled departures | 14,304 | — | 197,642 | 602,987 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 5,263 | 37% | 75.6% | 6.5 min | 2.0% |
| AA American Airlines | 4,511 | 32% | 77.6% | 13.0 min | 0.6% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 1,484 | 10% | 89.8% | -2.7 min | 0.4% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 864 | 6% | 89.2% | -1.7 min | 1.2% |
| UA United Airlines | 624 | 4% | 84.8% | -0.3 min | 0.3% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 560 | 4% | 74.6% | 9.9 min | 4.6% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 382 | 3% | 87.7% | -0.3 min | 0.3% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 320 | 2% | 86.6% | -1.7 min | 0.3% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 169 | 1% | 70.4% | 11.1 min | 2.4% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 62 | 0% | 46.8% | 40.6 min | 3.2% |
| G4 Allegiant Air | 34 | 0% | 61.8% | 14.3 min | 5.9% |
| HA Hawaiian Airlines | 31 | 0% | 51.6% | 44.0 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHX–DEN | Phoenix to Denver | 750 | 75.5% | 9.3 min | 2.0% |
| PHX–LAS | Phoenix to Las Vegas | 594 | 75.6% | 8.0 min | 3.0% |
| PHX–LAX | Phoenix to Los Angeles | 588 | 77.2% | 4.7 min | 1.7% |
| PHX–SEA | Phoenix to Seattle | 575 | 86.1% | 1.6 min | 0.5% |
| PHX–ORD | Phoenix to Chicago | 463 | 79.3% | 7.1 min | 1.3% |
| PHX–SAN | Phoenix to San Diego | 455 | 74.5% | 16.4 min | 4.2% |
| PHX–SLC | Phoenix to Salt Lake City | 405 | 85.2% | 0.8 min | 1.0% |
| PHX–DFW | Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth | 393 | 76.3% | 14.6 min | 0.8% |
| PHX–SFO | Phoenix to San Francisco | 354 | 75.7% | 11.6 min | 0.0% |
| PHX–SNA | Phoenix to Santa Ana | 344 | 76.2% | 9.5 min | 4.7% |
| PHX–SMF | Phoenix to Sacramento | 293 | 80.2% | 3.5 min | 0.3% |
| PHX–ATL | Phoenix to Atlanta | 292 | 82.9% | 3.4 min | 1.4% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left PHX on time in August 2023?
77.7% of 14,304 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
August 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.
Provenance
Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for PHX · methodology · corrections.