Route reliability record
BUR→PHX
Burbank to Phoenix
- Flights
- 3,118
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 369 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 3,118 BUR to PHX flights, of which Southwest Airlines flew 2,162 at 84.8% on time.
Best time to fly BUR to PHX: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.4% of the time and Tuesday flights 90.3%, against 83.0% for the route overall.
Southwest Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 84.8% on time across 2,162 flights.
Key figures
On time
83.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,085 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.96%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Southwest
84.8% on time across 2,162 flights
These figures cover 3,118 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on BUR to PHX
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 84.8% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 78.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 554 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 2,162 | 84.8% | 59 min | 1.02% | B |
| Envoy Air | 365 | 80.7% | 58 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 554 | 78.4% | 151 min | 1.08% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 37 | 73.0% | 53 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Southwest leads SkyWest by 6 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Burbank to Phoenix
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 4 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. LAX → PHXLos Angeles to Phoenix | SkyWest Airlines | 86.6% | 87.2% | 0.71% | 11am–2pm, Tue | OO 3894 14:19 |
| 2. BUR → PHXBurbank to Phoenix | Southwest Airlines | 83.9% | 84.8% | 1.02% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
| 3. ONT → PHXOntario to Phoenix | American Airlines | 83.7% | 84.5% | 0.92% | 5am–8am, Sat | — |
| 4. SNA → PHXSanta Ana to Phoenix | Southwest Airlines | 82.3% | 82.9% | 0.67% | 5am–8am, Mon | — |
| 5. SNA → PHXSanta Ana to Phoenix | American Airlines | 81.1% | 81.6% | 0.62% | 8am–11am, Tue | AA 628 06:45 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am280 flights91.4%
- 8am–11am774 flights88.6%
- 11am–2pm482 flights80.8%
- 2pm–5pm660 flights82.2%
- 5pm–8pm677 flights78.6%
- 8pm–5am245 flights75.0%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.4% of the time, against 75.0% for the overnight 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 774 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter BUR to PHX by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On BUR to PHX, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 91.4% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 75.0%, a wide gap of 16.4 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am91.4%
- 8–11am88.6%
- 11am–2pm80.8%
- 2–5pm82.2%
- 5–8pm78.6%
- 8pm–5am75.0%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 19 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
Delays peak in November, when the on-time rate falls to 70.6%. January is the strongest month at 89.2%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 19 points. March was the busiest month here, with 288 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 90.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.6%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 42,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 42,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 41,575 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 34%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 14,000 of the 42,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 0.96% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.10%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
6.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 369 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.8% on time across 3,147 flights, 3 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 3 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 3,118 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in PHX after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. January runs 89.2% on time and November 70.6%, a swing of 19 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of November before you think about anything else. 3,085 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
BUR to PHX questions
How often is BUR to PHX delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 17.0% of the 3,118 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on BUR to PHX?
Southwest Airlines leads at 84.8% on time across 2,162 flights. SkyWest Airlines is at the other end on 78.4%, a gap of 6 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on BUR to PHX?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 91.4% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 75.0%, 16 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are November delays on BUR to PHX?
November is the weakest month at 70.6% on time, compared with 89.2% in January. Across the year that is 19 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to BUR — the return legseparate record
- Hollywood Burbank (BUR) delay statistics
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Southwest Airlines on BUR to PHX84.8%
- Envoy Air on BUR to PHX80.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on BUR to PHX78.4%
- BUR to LAS, a related route80.4%
- DEN to PHX, a related route75.6%
- BUR to SFO, a related route59.3%
- Southwest Airlines on-time record84.8%
- Envoy Air on-time record80.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record78.4%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. BUR to PHX and PHX to BUR are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.