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Airport month · October 2023
Phoenix Sky Harbor International in October 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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 15,503 domestic departures from Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX). 81.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.6% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so PHX departures were 2.7 points below the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at PHX that month were on time 81.5% of the time (15,507 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 12%.
- On time 82.6%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.1%
- Cancelled 0.1%
- Diverted 0.1%
October 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Oct 2023 | Year earlier | PHX, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Oct 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 81.1% | — | 76.1% | 83.8% |
| Arrived on time | 82.6% | — | 77.4% | 84.0% |
| Cancelled | 0.1% | — | 0.9% | 0.4% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 11.5 min | — | 15.8 min | 11.0 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 517 | — | 542 | 19,966 |
| Scheduled departures | 15,503 | — | 197,642 | 598,968 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 5,632 | 36% | 77.6% | 5.4 min | 0.2% |
| AA American Airlines | 4,543 | 29% | 83.8% | 1.9 min | 0.2% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 1,764 | 11% | 89.1% | -1.2 min | 0.1% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 877 | 6% | 74.7% | 8.4 min | 0.0% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 874 | 6% | 94.5% | -10.7 min | 0.1% |
| UA United Airlines | 745 | 5% | 91.9% | -9.3 min | 0.3% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 405 | 3% | 90.9% | -6.2 min | 0.0% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 337 | 2% | 84.3% | 4.3 min | 0.0% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 170 | 1% | 81.8% | 3.6 min | 1.8% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 85 | 1% | 56.5% | 60.3 min | 0.0% |
| G4 Allegiant Air | 40 | 0% | 75.0% | 14.4 min | 0.0% |
| HA Hawaiian Airlines | 31 | 0% | 48.4% | 19.9 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHX–DEN | Phoenix to Denver | 776 | 79.5% | 4.1 min | 0.0% |
| PHX–LAS | Phoenix to Las Vegas | 639 | 77.8% | 7.2 min | 0.3% |
| PHX–SEA | Phoenix to Seattle | 609 | 87.7% | -4.9 min | 0.0% |
| PHX–ORD | Phoenix to Chicago | 551 | 87.5% | -6.1 min | 0.0% |
| PHX–LAX | Phoenix to Los Angeles | 544 | 78.1% | 5.2 min | 0.0% |
| PHX–SAN | Phoenix to San Diego | 496 | 75.6% | 8.6 min | 0.8% |
| PHX–DFW | Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth | 446 | 84.8% | 5.7 min | 1.8% |
| PHX–SLC | Phoenix to Salt Lake City | 444 | 86.0% | -0.1 min | 0.2% |
| PHX–SFO | Phoenix to San Francisco | 382 | 77.5% | 7.0 min | 0.0% |
| PHX–SNA | Phoenix to Santa Ana | 339 | 88.2% | -0.1 min | 0.0% |
| PHX–PDX | Phoenix to Portland | 318 | 83.0% | 3.5 min | 0.0% |
| PHX–MDW | Phoenix to Chicago | 313 | 81.2% | 2.9 min | 0.0% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left PHX on time in October 2023?
81.1% of 15,503 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
October 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 October 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.