Airport month record

PHXFEB

Phoenix Sky Harbor International in February 2026

Departures: 15,656
Month: February 2026
National, same month: 80.2%
Carriers: 9

Historical statistics for February 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s February. For today’s conditions at PHX, see live FAA status.

PHX in February lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 80.2%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 15,656 flights, of which Alaska Airlines flew 471 at 90.7% on time.

Alaska Airlines is the most reliable of the eight carriers covered here at 90.7% on time across 471 flights.

On time

83.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 15,515 completed departures

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.71%

Nationally in February: 2.25%

Whole year

78.8%

PHX across all twelve months

These figures cover 15,656 departures from Phoenix Sky Harbor International in February 2026. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.

Against the year

February next to PHX's other months

Against PHX's own year, February ran 5 points better than the twelve-month rate of 78.8%, which makes it the best of the twelve months in the data. Either side of it, January ran 81.6% on time and March 76.8%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a worse stretch.

PHX month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	15,729	75.5%	70 min	0.97%	B+
August 2025	14,380	81.0%	66 min	0.39%	B+
September 2025	13,772	83.0%	74 min	1.09%	B
October 2025	16,620	78.8%	59 min	0.21%	B+
November 2025	16,887	78.0%	63 min	2.21%	B
December 2025	17,689	78.4%	59 min	0.50%	B+
January 2026	16,564	81.6%	64 min	2.34%	B
February 2026 (this page)	15,656	83.4%	58 min	0.71%	B+
March 2026	19,277	76.8%	65 min	0.92%	B+
April 2026	17,679	80.8%	57 min	0.29%	B+
May 2026	17,337	77.0%	58 min	0.30%	B+
June 2026	15,685	72.4%	65 min	0.43%	C+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave PHX in February

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against 12 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am1,357 flights94.0%
8am–11am3,488 flights87.2%
11am–2pm3,001 flights84.8%
2pm–5pm2,904 flights78.5%
5pm–8pm2,407 flights78.4%
8pm–5am2,499 flights81.0%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.0% of the time, against 78.4% for the evening window. That is 16 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 3,488 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 87.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 81.0%. 7 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at PHX in February

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Alaska Airlines arrives on time 90.7% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 78.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 2,318 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at PHX in February 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	5,144	81.0%	40 min	0.19%	B+
American Airlines	4,472	84.9%	59 min	0.89%	B+
SkyWest Airlines	2,318	78.4%	80 min	0.86%	B+
United Airlines	843	88.5%	67 min	0.83%	A+
Delta Air Lines	785	87.2%	108 min	1.27%	A
Envoy Air	754	90.5%	44 min	1.33%	A
Frontier Airlines	718	86.5%	61 min	0.42%	A+
Alaska Airlines	471	90.7%	51 min	0.00%	A+
JetBlue Airwaysthin sample	127	73.3%	61 min	8.66%	C−

The spread between Alaska and SkyWest is 12 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 12 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of PHX in February

Routes from PHX in February 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PHX to DEN · Denver	722	82.6%	66 min	0.28%	B+
PHX to LAX · Los Angeles	599	84.8%	66 min	0.17%	B+
PHX to SEA · Seattle	568	90.3%	49 min	0.18%	A+
PHX to SLC · Salt Lake City	488	84.1%	52 min	0.41%	B+
PHX to LAS · Las Vegas	480	85.4%	54 min	0.00%	A+
PHX to ORD · Chicago	445	84.7%	42 min	0.00%	B+
PHX to SAN · San Diego	425	80.3%	37 min	0.47%	B+
PHX to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth	400	84.6%	51 min	0.50%	B+
PHX to SNA · Santa Ana	365	84.6%	44 min	0.27%	B+
PHX to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	360	80.8%	69 min	0.00%	B+
PHX to SMF · Sacramentothin sample	291	83.2%	45 min	0.00%	B+
PHX to PDX · Portlandthin sample	279	87.8%	56 min	0.00%	A+
PHX to AUS · Austinthin sample	272	82.4%	40 min	0.00%	B+
PHX to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample	262	80.5%	100 min	0.00%	B+
PHX to ATL · Atlantathin sample	257	86.8%	69 min	0.00%	A+
PHX to SJC · San Josethin sample	253	81.7%	57 min	0.40%	B+
PHX to ABQ · Albuquerquethin sample	251	90.0%	48 min	0.00%	A+
PHX to TUS · Tucsonthin sample	249	83.5%	85 min	0.00%	B+
PHX to JFK · New Yorkthin sample	247	78.7%	74 min	8.50%	B−
PHX to IAH · Houstonthin sample	244	90.1%	72 min	0.41%	A+
PHX to ONT · Ontariothin sample	240	83.3%	48 min	0.00%	B+
PHX to BUR · Burbankthin sample	233	81.7%	66 min	1.29%	B
PHX to CLT · Charlottethin sample	229	92.9%	126 min	2.18%	A
PHX to DAL · Dallasthin sample	222	80.6%	35 min	0.00%	B+
PHX to MDW · Chicagothin sample	204	78.4%	36 min	0.00%	B+

Delay causes

What held PHX up in February

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 148,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
50%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 75,000 of the 148,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 148,391 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.71%, below the national 2.25% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 6.5% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

What to do with this

Flying from PHX in February

For a February trip through PHX: this is one of the better months to be flying from here, 83.4% on time with 0.71% cancelled. That is a base rate for the month as a whole; a single storm can still spoil a particular day.

Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX), the whole year
PHX in July75.5%
PHX in August81.0%
PHX in September83.0%
PHX in October78.8%
PHX in November78.0%
PHX in December78.4%
PHX in January81.6%
PHX in March76.8%
PHX in April80.8%
PHX in May77.0%
PHX in June72.4%

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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