Phoenix Sky Harbor International in February 2025

83.4%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 15,458 domestic departures from Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX). 83.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.7% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.2% of flights departed on time and 77.9% arrived on time, so PHX departures were 4.2 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in February 2024, the airport had 14,823 departures with 84.1% leaving on time: a change of −0.7 points, with flights up 4%.

Flights arriving at PHX that month were on time 83.3% of the time (15,459 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 41%, air carrier 39% and national aviation system 17%.

On time 84.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.7%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from PHX in February 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

February 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Feb 2025	Feb 2024	PHX, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2025
Departed on time	83.4%	84.1%	76.1%	79.2%
Arrived on time	84.7%	84.7%	77.4%	77.9%
Cancelled	0.4%	0.2%	0.9%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.3 min	9.5 min	15.8 min	15.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	515	494	542	16,830
Scheduled departures	15,458	14,823	197,642	504,884

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	5,129	33%	85.7%	-0.4 min	0.3%
AA American Airlines	4,113	27%	83.8%	-0.3 min	0.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	2,388	15%	81.2%	3.4 min	0.5%
UA United Airlines	920	6%	89.1%	-5.4 min	0.2%
MQ Envoy Air	767	5%	87.9%	-2.0 min	0.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	745	5%	89.4%	-4.0 min	0.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines	703	5%	85.1%	-1.3 min	0.6%
AS Alaska Airlines	449	3%	81.1%	4.4 min	2.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	140	1%	76.4%	14.1 min	0.7%
NK Spirit Airlines	45	0%	73.3%	14.3 min	2.2%
G4 Allegiant Air	31	0%	77.4%	19.8 min	0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	28	0%	89.3%	-9.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PHX–DEN	Phoenix to Denver	763	87.8%	-1.7 min	0.3%
PHX–LAX	Phoenix to Los Angeles	584	88.7%	-3.8 min	0.5%
PHX–SEA	Phoenix to Seattle	572	79.9%	2.4 min	1.0%
PHX–LAS	Phoenix to Las Vegas	537	82.7%	3.5 min	0.7%
PHX–SLC	Phoenix to Salt Lake City	471	88.3%	-0.9 min	0.0%
PHX–ORD	Phoenix to Chicago	423	88.2%	-8.6 min	0.2%
PHX–SAN	Phoenix to San Diego	418	82.8%	1.0 min	0.5%
PHX–DFW	Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth	393	89.6%	-1.7 min	0.8%
PHX–SFO	Phoenix to San Francisco	381	77.2%	6.1 min	0.0%
PHX–SNA	Phoenix to Santa Ana	344	84.0%	2.3 min	0.0%
PHX–PDX	Phoenix to Portland	320	87.2%	5.2 min	0.9%
PHX–SMF	Phoenix to Sacramento	279	86.4%	-1.1 min	0.0%

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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	39.2%	33.9%	51,653
Late-arriving aircraft	40.6%	36.9%	53,459
National Aviation System	17.3%	22.5%	22,826
Extreme weather	2.7%	6.6%	3,542
Security	0.1%	0.1%	143

131,623 delay minutes on 2,276 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left PHX on time in February 2025?

83.4% of 15,458 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.2% and 77.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In February 2024, 84.1% of 14,823 departures left on time and 0.2% were cancelled, against 83.4% and 0.4% in February 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for February 2025; 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.