On-Time Report

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Route · 12 months to July 2026

Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix: on-time record

Tri Cities to Phoenix Sky Harbor International

88.9%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 Pasco/Kennewick/Richland (PSC) to Phoenix (PHX) arrived on time 88.9% of the time in the 12 months to July 2026. Reporting carriers scheduled 693 flights on the route in that period, about 1.9 a day, a distance of 962 miles.

That is 12.9 points above the national on-time share of 76.0% for the same period and 2.2 points above the 86.7% recorded for all departures from PSC. Flights that did arrive were 3.4 minutes early on average, and 0.0% of scheduled flights were cancelled (national: 1.8%).

SkyWest Airlines is the only reporting carrier on the route, with 693 flights in the period.

By scheduled departure hour (local time at PSC), flights leaving from 5 am to 6 am had the highest on-time share, 93.4%; those leaving from 3 pm to 4 pm had the lowest, 72.7%.

The on-time share is about level with the previous 12 months (88.9%); cancellations moved from 0.0% to 0.0%.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category on this route, air carrier 69%, late-arriving aircraft 25% and national aviation system 6%.

88.9%arrived on timenational 76.0%
-3.4 minaverage arrival delayearly arrivals count as negative; national 8.1 min
0.0%cancellednational 1.8%
58flights a month693 in 12 months · 962 miles
Every scheduled PSC to PHX flight by a reporting carrier, August 2025 to July 2026.

Airlines on the route compared

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines693100%88.9%-3.4 min0.0%

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

MeasurePSC to PHXAll departures from PSCAll arrivals at PHXAll reported flights
Arrived on time88.9%86.7%78.7%76.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late10.7%12.6%20.1%21.9%
Cancelled0.0%0.5%0.9%1.8%
Diverted0.4%0.2%0.2%0.3%
Average arrival delay-3.4 min0.1 min6.9 min8.1 min
Delay minutes per 100 flights1,0531,2291,5811,684
Scheduled flights6936,190197,6477,043,858

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 PSC, recorded 85.1% on time across 693 flights in the same period.

Month by month

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Share of scheduled PSC 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.

Year on year: on time 88.9% against 88.9% (0.0 pts), cancelled 0.0% against 0.0%, flights 693 against 692.

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 PSC (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 carrier69.4%33.3%4,766
Late-arriving aircraft24.7%39.7%1,699
National Aviation System5.9%20.7%406
Extreme weather0.0%6.1%0
Security0.0%0.1%0
6,871 delay minutes on 74 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
Jan12387.8%0.0%-4.2 min2
Feb12787.4%0.0%-4.5 min3
Mar15789.2%0.0%-6.9 min3
Apr15095.3%0.0%-5.3 min3
May15491.6%0.0%-1.6 min3
Jun15085.3%0.0%-1.5 min3
Jul15383.0%0.0%4.2 min3
Aug9285.9%0.0%-4.0 min2
Sep9994.9%0.0%-2.2 min2
Oct10990.8%0.0%-5.7 min2
Nov11785.5%0.0%-2.2 min2
Dec12286.9%0.0%-1.5 min2

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 Pasco/Kennewick/Richland (PSC)

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PSC–SEAPasco/Kennewick/Richland to Seattle1,72787.7%-0.6 min0.9%
PSC–SLCPasco/Kennewick/Richland to Salt Lake City1,17893.5%-5.2 min0.2%
PSC–DENPasco/Kennewick/Richland to Denver72888.3%-5.7 min0.5%
PSC–SFOPasco/Kennewick/Richland to San Francisco59670.6%13.8 min0.2%
PSC–MSPPasco/Kennewick/Richland to Minneapolis36591.5%-2.4 min0.3%
PSC–LAXPasco/Kennewick/Richland to Los Angeles35987.2%-3.9 min0.8%
PSC–BURPasco/Kennewick/Richland to Burbank18681.7%-1.6 min1.6%
PSC–AZAPasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix13373.7%18.3 min0.0%

All 12 routes and the airport record for PSC · airport record for PHX

Questions and answers

How often are flights from Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix on time?

88.9% of the 693 flights scheduled from PSC 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 PSC to PHX?

SkyWest Airlines 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 Pasco/Kennewick/Richland and Phoenix?

For flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late, carriers attributed the delay minutes as follows: air carrier 69%, late-arriving aircraft 25%, national aviation system 6%, extreme weather 0%, 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 PSC?

Flights scheduled to leave PSC from 5 am to 6 am arrived on time 93.4% of the time, the highest of any hour with enough flights to compare. The lowest was 3 pm to 4 pm at 72.7%. Delays tend to build through the day as late aircraft carry over to later flights.

Is it getting better?

The on-time share for the 12 months to July 2026 was 88.9%, about level with the previous 12 months (88.9%). The monthly chart on this page shows each of the last 36 months. Across those months, April had the highest on-time share (95.3%) and July the lowest (83.0%).

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.