Carrier route record

OOABQ→PHX

SkyWest Airlines · Albuquerque to Phoenix

Flights: 686
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 21%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on ABQ to PHX earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 686 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 1,884 at 81.5% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's ABQ to PHX record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 681 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.73%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.4%

Every carrier on ABQ to PHX, 3,317 flights

These figures cover 686 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on ABQ to PHX

SkyWest flew 686 of the 3,317 flights on ABQ to PHX, about 21% of it. Its 86.0% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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: 2 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.

On-time performance by carrier on ABQ to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	189	86.8%	42 min	0.00%	A+
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	686	86.0%	82 min	0.73%	A+
Southwest Airlines	1,884	81.5%	55 min	0.32%	B+
American Airlines	558	79.7%	141 min	1.08%	B

No carrier stands out. Southwest tops the table at 81.5%, 2 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

Departure window

When SkyWest runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against 2 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am201 flights93.5%
8am–11am69 flights88.4%
11am–2pm163 flights82.8%
2pm–5pm143 flights85.6%
5pm–8pm108 flights76.6%
8pm–5am2 flights—

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 93.5% of the time, against 76.6% for the evening window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 201 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on ABQ to PHX through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.August best, April worst

Delays peak in April, when the on-time rate falls to 79.8%. August is the strongest month at 100.0%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 20 points. March was the busiest month here, with 122 flights.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 91.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 79.6%. 11 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 7,771 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
47%
Carrier
39%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
2%

47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 7,771 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 24 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 7,771 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, 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 3,000 of the 7,771 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.73%, below the national 1.81% 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.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.

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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 85.5% on time across 685 flights, within half a point 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. 686 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 SkyWest on ABQ to PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 686 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 86.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 681 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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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