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Airport month · February 2024

Phoenix Sky Harbor International in February 2024

84.1%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 14,823 domestic departures from Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX). 84.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.7% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so PHX departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PHX that month were on time 83.7% of the time (14,831 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 40%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 23%.

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

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

MeasureFeb 2024Year earlierPHX, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time84.1%—76.1%84.0%
Arrived on time84.7%—77.4%83.4%
Cancelled0.2%—0.9%0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)9.5 min—15.8 min11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day494—54217,307
Scheduled departures14,823—197,642519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines4,83233%81.6%2.4 min0.2%
AA American Airlines4,51730%84.9%0.1 min0.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines2,11114%88.2%-1.4 min0.2%
DL Delta Air Lines8186%92.2%-8.4 min0.1%
UA United Airlines7715%86.6%0.5 min0.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines7465%83.6%1.1 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines4293%85.8%-2.0 min0.2%
MQ Envoy Air3753%90.4%-0.6 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines1031%71.8%11.4 min1.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways580%65.5%27.2 min1.7%
G4 Allegiant Air340%91.2%-5.1 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines290%62.1%46.6 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PHX–DENPhoenix to Denver77282.9%4.9 min0.1%
PHX–SEAPhoenix to Seattle56688.9%-6.6 min0.0%
PHX–LASPhoenix to Las Vegas55679.1%6.1 min0.4%
PHX–ORDPhoenix to Chicago47888.7%-4.9 min0.6%
PHX–LAXPhoenix to Los Angeles47281.8%3.0 min0.0%
PHX–SLCPhoenix to Salt Lake City46187.9%-2.9 min0.0%
PHX–SANPhoenix to San Diego43882.6%3.4 min0.0%
PHX–DFWPhoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth40987.5%-3.3 min0.0%
PHX–SFOPhoenix to San Francisco37148.5%36.2 min0.8%
PHX–SNAPhoenix to Santa Ana35586.5%-0.2 min0.0%
PHX–PDXPhoenix to Portland30088.7%-2.5 min0.0%
PHX–AUSPhoenix to Austin27886.3%-1.9 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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Feb 2024Minutes
Air carrier31.9%35.9%37,090
Late-arriving aircraft40.2%36.9%46,685
National Aviation System23.4%21.7%27,144
Extreme weather4.4%5.3%5,076
Security0.1%0.3%172
116,167 delay minutes on 2,212 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 February 2024?

84.1% of 14,823 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.