Carrier route record
OOELP→PHX
SkyWest Airlines · El Paso to Phoenix
- Flights
- 852
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 34%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ELP to PHX lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 852 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's ELP to PHX record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 845 completed flights
Avg delay
112 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
81.1%
Every carrier on ELP to PHX, 2,507 flights
These figures cover 852 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 ELP to PHX
SkyWest flew 852 of the 2,507 flights on ELP to PHX, about 34% of it. Its 83.9% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 84.9% to Southwest at 77.8%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 119 | 84.9% | 53 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 318 | 84.8% | 59 min | 0.63% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 852 | 83.9% | 112 min | 0.82% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,218 | 77.8% | 50 min | 0.82% | B+ |
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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am161 flights93.1%
- 8am–11am119 flights83.2%
- 11am–2pm282 flights83.5%
- 2pm–5pm186 flights84.2%
- 5pm–8pm102 flights70.3%
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.1% of the time, against 70.3% for the evening window. That is 23 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 282 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ELP to PHX through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 93.3% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. April was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 78.7%. 10 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. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 15,000 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.
- 62%Carrier
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, 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 9,344 of the 15,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 15,167 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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
7.9% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 347 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 80.0% on time across 851 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 852 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 ELP to PHX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 852 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 83.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 845 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ELP to PHX, every carrier
- SkyWest on PHX to ELP, the return leg
- American Airlines on ELP to PHX84.9%
- Envoy Air on ELP to PHX84.8%
- Southwest Airlines on ELP to PHX77.8%
- SkyWest 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.