On-Time Report

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Route · 12 months to July 2026

Little Rock to Phoenix: on-time record

Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field to Phoenix Sky Harbor International

85.3%arrived 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. Data through July 2026; this is a monthly history, not live flight status.

Flights from Little Rock (LIT) to Phoenix (PHX) arrived on time 85.3% of the time in the 12 months to July 2026. Reporting carriers scheduled 306 flights on the route in that period, about 0.8 a day, a distance of 1,136 miles.

That is 9.3 points above the national on-time share of 76.0% for the same period and 6.1 points above the 79.2% recorded for all departures from LIT. Flights that did arrive were 1.9 minutes early on average, and 0.3% of scheduled flights were cancelled (national: 1.8%).

Envoy Air is the only reporting carrier on the route, with 301 flights in the period.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category on this route, air carrier 53%, national aviation system 21% and extreme weather 14%.

85.3%arrived on timenational 76.0%
-1.9 minaverage arrival delayearly arrivals count as negative; national 8.1 min
0.3%cancellednational 1.8%
26flights a month306 in 12 months · 1,136 miles
Every scheduled LIT to PHX flight by a reporting carrier, August 2025 to July 2026.

Airlines on the route compared

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air30198%85.7%-2.7 min0.3%

Carriers with at least 24 flights in the 12 months to July 2026. The on-time pill is green when a carrier is at or above the route's overall share. Regional carriers operate flights sold under larger airlines' brands; BTS lists the carrier that operated the flight.

Compared with the airports and the nation

MeasureLIT to PHXAll departures from LITAll arrivals at PHXAll reported flights
Arrived on time85.3%79.2%78.7%76.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late14.4%18.8%20.1%21.9%
Cancelled0.3%1.8%0.9%1.8%
Diverted0.0%0.2%0.2%0.3%
Average arrival delay-1.9 min6.5 min6.9 min8.1 min
Delay minutes per 100 flights9291,6181,5811,684
Scheduled flights30613,424197,6477,043,858

12 months to July 2026. Delay minutes count late arrivals only (an early arrival is zero), so the per-100-flights row is a normalised total rather than an average of early and late.

The return direction, PHX to LIT, recorded 76.5% on time across 306 flights in the same period.

Month by month

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Share of scheduled LIT to PHX flights that arrived on time, Aug 2023 to Jul 2026. Green columns are at or above the national figure for that month (the dark tick), amber below it, red more than eight points below.

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of flights that arrived on time, by the hour they were scheduled to leave LIT (local time), 12 months to July 2026. Faded cells have few flights. Hover or tap a cell for counts.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNationalMinutes
Air carrier53.3%33.3%1,414
Late-arriving aircraft11.4%39.7%302
National Aviation System21.4%20.7%567
Extreme weather14.0%6.1%371
Security0.0%0.1%0
2,654 delay minutes on 44 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Seasonality

Calendar monthFlightsOn timeCancelledAvg arrival delayYears in sample
Jan3485.3%2.9%-0.7 min3
Feb3080.0%0.0%-7.7 min2
Mar3293.8%0.0%-11.7 min2
Apr3080.0%0.0%-1.1 min1
May3187.1%0.0%16.6 min1
Jun3080.0%0.0%-1.9 min1
Jul3290.6%0.0%-13.2 min2
Oct2688.5%0.0%0.2 min1
Nov3884.2%0.0%-0.7 min3
Dec4283.3%0.0%1.5 min3

Each calendar month summed across the 36 months on file, so most rows combine three years. The pill compares the month with the route's own 12-month share.

Other routes from Little Rock (LIT)

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
LIT–DFWLittle Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth2,66572.6%17.0 min2.4%
LIT–ATLLittle Rock to Atlanta2,29487.2%-3.9 min2.0%
LIT–DENLittle Rock to Denver1,57279.5%5.8 min0.6%
LIT–ORDLittle Rock to Chicago1,45767.4%17.1 min3.1%
LIT–CLTLittle Rock to Charlotte1,23682.5%4.2 min2.5%
LIT–DALLittle Rock to Dallas1,03882.5%2.4 min1.0%
LIT–IAHLittle Rock to Houston65371.7%13.6 min0.3%
LIT–STLLittle Rock to St. Louis40386.6%-3.2 min1.0%

All 21 routes and the airport record for LIT · airport record for PHX

Questions and answers

How often are flights from Little Rock to Phoenix on time?

85.3% of the 306 flights scheduled from LIT to PHX in the 12 months to July 2026 arrived less than 15 minutes after their scheduled time. The national share for the same period was 76.0%. Cancelled and diverted flights count as not on time.

Which airline has the highest on-time share from LIT to PHX?

Envoy Air is the only reporting carrier with at least 60 flights on the route in the period, so there is no comparison to make.

What causes delays between Little Rock and Phoenix?

For flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late, carriers attributed the delay minutes as follows: air carrier 53%, national aviation system 21%, extreme weather 14%, late-arriving aircraft 11%, security 0%. The categories are the carriers' own reports to BTS; weather that slows the wider system is usually recorded under the National Aviation System rather than extreme weather.

What time of day has the highest on-time share from LIT?

Too few departure hours carry enough flights on this route to compare them.

Is it getting better?

The route does not have enough flights in the previous 12 months for a year-on-year comparison. The monthly chart on this page shows the months that are available.

Where does this data come from?

Every figure is computed from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance files, which list each scheduled domestic flight by the carriers required to report. This page covers August 2023 to July 2026. It shows totals and averages only; it is not a live flight-status service.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (1987 to present), monthly files August 2023 to July 2026, a US government work in the public domain. Figures are totals and averages over all scheduled flights by reporting carriers on the route; no individual flight or aircraft is identified. Times are local to the departure airport. The load factor and passenger counts from the BTS T-100 series are not included in this edition. See the methodology; report processing errors through corrections.