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Airport month · March 2024
Phoenix Sky Harbor International in March 2024
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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 17,375 domestic departures from Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX). 78.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.4% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so PHX departures were level with the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at PHX that month were on time 79.6% of the time (17,373 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 18%.
- On time 78.4%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.0%
- Cancelled 0.5%
- Diverted 0.2%
March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Mar 2024 | Year earlier | PHX, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 78.3% | — | 76.1% | 78.5% |
| Arrived on time | 78.4% | — | 77.4% | 78.3% |
| Cancelled | 0.5% | — | 0.9% | 0.9% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 14.7 min | — | 15.8 min | 15.7 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 579 | — | 542 | 19,726 |
| Scheduled departures | 17,375 | — | 197,642 | 591,767 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 5,754 | 33% | 76.2% | 7.1 min | 0.6% |
| AA American Airlines | 5,091 | 29% | 75.0% | 10.6 min | 0.3% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 2,168 | 12% | 88.2% | 0.4 min | 0.2% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 989 | 6% | 69.5% | 20.7 min | 1.0% |
| UA United Airlines | 968 | 6% | 84.4% | 0.3 min | 0.3% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 962 | 6% | 85.1% | 3.7 min | 0.3% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 647 | 4% | 88.7% | -3.3 min | 0.2% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 518 | 3% | 82.4% | 2.9 min | 1.2% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 149 | 1% | 58.4% | 31.8 min | 1.3% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 62 | 0% | 61.3% | 38.8 min | 3.2% |
| G4 Allegiant Air | 36 | 0% | 75.0% | 24.3 min | 0.0% |
| HA Hawaiian Airlines | 31 | 0% | 77.4% | -0.2 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHX–DEN | Phoenix to Denver | 917 | 80.2% | 6.5 min | 2.1% |
| PHX–SEA | Phoenix to Seattle | 670 | 85.5% | -0.8 min | 0.1% |
| PHX–LAS | Phoenix to Las Vegas | 612 | 67.6% | 19.4 min | 1.3% |
| PHX–ORD | Phoenix to Chicago | 597 | 75.5% | 5.3 min | 0.3% |
| PHX–LAX | Phoenix to Los Angeles | 527 | 78.7% | 8.2 min | 0.0% |
| PHX–SLC | Phoenix to Salt Lake City | 512 | 81.8% | 3.7 min | 0.2% |
| PHX–DFW | Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth | 485 | 74.8% | 16.4 min | 2.1% |
| PHX–SAN | Phoenix to San Diego | 465 | 76.1% | 7.1 min | 0.4% |
| PHX–SFO | Phoenix to San Francisco | 452 | 47.8% | 32.2 min | 0.4% |
| PHX–PDX | Phoenix to Portland | 408 | 82.8% | 4.4 min | 0.7% |
| PHX–SNA | Phoenix to Santa Ana | 379 | 82.1% | 5.3 min | 0.3% |
| PHX–MSP | Phoenix to Minneapolis | 348 | 77.9% | 9.1 min | 0.6% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left PHX on time in March 2024?
78.3% of 17,375 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
March 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 March 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.