Carrier route record
AAABQ→PHX
American Airlines · Albuquerque to Phoenix
- Flights
- 558
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on ABQ to PHX lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.3 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 558 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 686 at 86.0% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate American on ABQ to PHX from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 552 completed flights
Avg delay
141 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.08%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.4%
Every carrier on ABQ to PHX, 3,317 flights
These figures cover 558 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on ABQ to PHX
American flew 558 of the 3,317 flights on ABQ to PHX, about 17% of it. Its 79.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.8% to American at 79.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 189 | 86.8% | 42 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 686 | 86.0% | 82 min | 0.73% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,884 | 81.5% | 55 min | 0.32% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 558 | 79.7% | 141 min | 1.08% | B |
No carrier stands out. SkyWest tops the table at 86.0%, 5 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am70 flights86.8%
- 8am–11am130 flights69.5%
- 11am–2pm158 flights87.3%
- 2pm–5pm95 flights85.1%
- 5pm–8pm105 flights71.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 87.3% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 69.5%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 158 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on ABQ to PHX through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025213 flights85.3%
- Oct–Dec 2025167 flights76.6%
- Jan–Mar 202670 flights66.7%
- Apr–Jun 2026108 flights81.5%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 79.7% on time across 558 flights.
American on ABQ to PHX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 85.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 66.7%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 140 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 92.8% on time and Friday the weakest at 71.6%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 16,000 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.
- 55%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, 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 8,613 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 15,772 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.08% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.3 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 328 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 81.6% on time across 559 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 558 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking American on ABQ to PHX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 558 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 79.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 552 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ABQ to PHX, every carrier
- American on PHX to ABQ, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ABQ to PHX86.8%
- SkyWest Airlines on ABQ to PHX86.0%
- Southwest Airlines on ABQ to PHX81.5%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
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.