Carrier route record
AAFAT→PHX
American Airlines · Fresno to Phoenix
- Flights
- 794
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 54%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on FAT to PHX lands a B+, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 794 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on FAT 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
78.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 787 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.76%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.1%
Every carrier on FAT to PHX, 1,476 flights
These figures cover 794 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on FAT to PHX
American flew 794 of the 1,476 flights on FAT to PHX, most of the route. Its 78.3% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 87.7% to American at 78.3%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 147 | 87.7% | 140 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 535 | 83.6% | 130 min | 0.56% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 794 | 78.3% | 84 min | 0.76% | B+ |
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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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am173 flights90.1%
- 11am–2pm349 flights82.8%
- 2pm–5pm41 flights75.0%
- 5pm–8pm231 flights63.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.2% on time, against 90.1% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 349 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on FAT to PHX through the year
June is the worst month at 61.7% on time, 26 points below February, the best at 87.7%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. March was the busiest month here, with 87 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 72.3%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on FAT to PHX runs when it is late
The 171 late arrivals split 53 under half an hour, 53 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 65 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early179 flights22.7%
- Within 15 min437 flights55.5%
- 15–29 min late53 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late53 flights6.7%
- 1–2 hours late36 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late29 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 787 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
30 of 190 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. Only 11 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on FAT to PHX
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 July 2026, 16 hours behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2026 | 16 hours | Carrier |
| 13 November 2025 | 12 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 May 2026 | 11 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 November 2025 | 7 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 October 2025 | 6 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 77% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 77%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
77% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 77 to one. The split is drawn from 14,402 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.1% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.76%, below the national 1.89% 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
8.3% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 493 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 78.9% on time across 794 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. 794 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 FAT to PHX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 794 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 78.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 787 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FAT to PHX, every carrier
- American on PHX to FAT, the return leg
- Envoy Air on FAT to PHX87.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on FAT to PHX83.6%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.