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Airport month · May 2024
Phoenix Sky Harbor International in May 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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 16,741 domestic departures from Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX). 74.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.8% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so PHX departures were 0.9 points above the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at PHX that month were on time 75.0% of the time (16,737 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 15%.
- On time 75.8%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.2%
- Cancelled 0.7%
- Diverted 0.4%
May 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | May 2024 | Year earlier | PHX, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, May 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 74.3% | — | 76.1% | 73.4% |
| Arrived on time | 75.8% | — | 77.4% | 72.3% |
| Cancelled | 0.7% | — | 0.9% | 1.4% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 17.6 min | — | 15.8 min | 20.8 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 558 | — | 542 | 20,325 |
| Scheduled departures | 16,741 | — | 197,642 | 609,743 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 5,573 | 33% | 73.5% | 9.2 min | 0.5% |
| AA American Airlines | 4,966 | 30% | 70.2% | 17.1 min | 1.2% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 2,232 | 13% | 87.4% | 0.7 min | 0.0% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 914 | 5% | 89.2% | -2.2 min | 0.0% |
| UA United Airlines | 886 | 5% | 77.5% | 10.0 min | 0.9% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 842 | 5% | 69.1% | 12.2 min | 1.2% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 686 | 4% | 84.8% | 2.3 min | 0.0% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 407 | 2% | 78.6% | 7.5 min | 0.2% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 106 | 1% | 71.7% | 14.2 min | 0.0% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 62 | 0% | 61.3% | 11.5 min | 0.0% |
| G4 Allegiant Air | 36 | 0% | 77.8% | -1.0 min | 0.0% |
| HA Hawaiian Airlines | 31 | 0% | 67.7% | 7.9 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHX–DEN | Phoenix to Denver | 814 | 72.5% | 11.6 min | 1.5% |
| PHX–LAS | Phoenix to Las Vegas | 629 | 72.2% | 11.2 min | 0.3% |
| PHX–SEA | Phoenix to Seattle | 609 | 79.8% | 4.9 min | 0.2% |
| PHX–LAX | Phoenix to Los Angeles | 581 | 74.9% | 10.2 min | 0.2% |
| PHX–ORD | Phoenix to Chicago | 581 | 68.5% | 14.7 min | 1.0% |
| PHX–SLC | Phoenix to Salt Lake City | 530 | 85.7% | 0.6 min | 0.2% |
| PHX–SAN | Phoenix to San Diego | 486 | 74.5% | 10.9 min | 0.4% |
| PHX–DFW | Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth | 474 | 60.1% | 29.5 min | 5.7% |
| PHX–SFO | Phoenix to San Francisco | 415 | 46.5% | 29.9 min | 0.7% |
| PHX–SNA | Phoenix to Santa Ana | 369 | 79.1% | 9.1 min | 0.5% |
| PHX–ATL | Phoenix to Atlanta | 337 | 78.3% | 4.8 min | 0.3% |
| PHX–SMF | Phoenix to Sacramento | 330 | 70.3% | 15.2 min | 0.0% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left PHX on time in May 2024?
74.3% of 16,741 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
May 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 May 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.