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Airport month · January 2024

Phoenix Sky Harbor International in January 2024

77.9%departed on time

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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 15,378 domestic departures from Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX). 77.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.5% reached their destination on time; 2.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so PHX departures were 3.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PHX that month were on time 76.9% of the time (15,367 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 13%.

Every scheduled departure from PHX in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierPHX, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time77.9%—76.1%74.0%
Arrived on time77.5%—77.4%72.9%
Cancelled2.0%—0.9%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.6 min—15.8 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day513—54218,242
Scheduled departures15,378—197,642547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines5,22534%77.3%5.2 min1.7%
AA American Airlines4,62130%74.8%13.6 min0.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines2,16714%83.8%2.9 min0.7%
DL Delta Air Lines8676%86.5%0.0 min0.2%
UA United Airlines8005%76.4%2.7 min10.3%
F9 Frontier Airlines7105%81.1%4.6 min1.1%
AS Alaska Airlines3983%60.8%8.6 min18.8%
MQ Envoy Air3362%74.4%13.4 min1.5%
NK Spirit Airlines1271%67.7%9.2 min1.6%
B6 JetBlue Airways620%66.1%34.0 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air340%73.5%29.0 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines310%67.7%15.4 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PHX–DENPhoenix to Denver80278.6%3.6 min2.9%
PHX–LASPhoenix to Las Vegas58078.6%9.8 min0.9%
PHX–SEAPhoenix to Seattle53572.7%5.6 min6.5%
PHX–LAXPhoenix to Los Angeles51482.5%2.6 min2.9%
PHX–SLCPhoenix to Salt Lake City50383.7%4.5 min0.0%
PHX–ORDPhoenix to Chicago50176.0%7.6 min6.2%
PHX–SANPhoenix to San Diego47381.0%4.0 min0.0%
PHX–DFWPhoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth41774.8%14.9 min0.5%
PHX–SNAPhoenix to Santa Ana37679.8%3.0 min0.0%
PHX–SFOPhoenix to San Francisco36459.1%16.5 min4.9%
PHX–AUSPhoenix to Austin30078.3%13.3 min1.0%
PHX–SMFPhoenix to Sacramento29578.0%6.2 min0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2024Minutes
Air carrier35.5%32.6%70,535
Late-arriving aircraft48.6%39.0%96,609
National Aviation System13.4%17.9%26,637
Extreme weather2.5%10.3%4,877
Security0.1%0.2%185
198,843 delay minutes on 3,116 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left PHX on time in January 2024?

77.9% of 15,378 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; 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.