On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2024

Phoenix Sky Harbor International in April 2024

80.1%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 16,531 domestic departures from Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX). 80.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.6% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so PHX departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PHX that month were on time 81.2% of the time (16,536 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 18%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierPHX, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time80.1%—76.1%80.5%
Arrived on time81.6%—77.4%80.2%
Cancelled0.3%—0.9%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)12.8 min—15.8 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day551—54219,406
Scheduled departures16,531—197,642582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines5,51533%78.5%5.3 min0.3%
AA American Airlines4,88130%82.3%3.2 min0.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines2,16413%89.8%-1.3 min0.2%
UA United Airlines9426%84.3%-1.7 min0.4%
DL Delta Air Lines9296%88.1%-3.1 min0.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines8755%67.3%21.1 min0.6%
MQ Envoy Air5273%87.9%-0.4 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines4583%79.3%4.2 min0.4%
NK Spirit Airlines1161%65.5%19.4 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways600%78.3%32.4 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air340%85.3%-5.2 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines300%83.3%-5.1 min3.3%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PHX–DENPhoenix to Denver82877.9%10.7 min0.2%
PHX–SEAPhoenix to Seattle63483.4%-0.6 min0.3%
PHX–LASPhoenix to Las Vegas58876.9%8.2 min0.2%
PHX–ORDPhoenix to Chicago57680.4%1.3 min0.3%
PHX–LAXPhoenix to Los Angeles51882.6%3.8 min0.0%
PHX–SLCPhoenix to Salt Lake City50487.3%-1.0 min0.4%
PHX–SANPhoenix to San Diego45979.1%6.5 min0.4%
PHX–DFWPhoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth45678.5%11.2 min1.8%
PHX–SFOPhoenix to San Francisco42451.2%25.3 min0.5%
PHX–PDXPhoenix to Portland38282.5%2.3 min0.3%
PHX–SNAPhoenix to Santa Ana35682.3%2.6 min0.0%
PHX–ATLPhoenix to Atlanta34987.7%-3.5 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier36.6%33.6%63,319
Late-arriving aircraft44.2%41.0%76,400
National Aviation System17.8%20.0%30,760
Extreme weather1.3%5.1%2,189
Security0.1%0.2%140
172,808 delay minutes on 2,953 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 April 2024?

80.1% of 16,531 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.