Route reliability record
PHX→BUR
Phoenix to Burbank
- Flights
- 3,147
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 369 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route lands a B+, 3 points 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 about an hour on average. That rests on 3,147 PHX to BUR flights, of which Envoy Air flew 365 at 84.4% on time.
Best time to fly PHX to BUR: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.7% of the time and Wednesday flights 84.4%, against 79.8% for the route overall.
Envoy Air is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 84.4% on time across 365 flights.
Key figures
On time
79.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,112 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.70%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
84.4% on time across 365 flights
These figures cover 3,147 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 PHX to BUR
The three 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 Air | 365 | 84.4% | 51 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 554 | 79.8% | 84 min | 0.72% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 2,191 | 79.1% | 55 min | 0.73% | B+ |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 37 | 73.0% | 75 min | 0.00% | C+ |
No carrier stands out. Envoy tops the table at 84.4%, 5 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Phoenix to Burbank
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. PHX → LAXPhoenix to Los Angeles | SkyWest Airlines | 89.4% | 90.0% | 0.71% | 5am–8am, Tue | OO 4119 10:45 |
| 2. PHX → BURPhoenix to Burbank | Envoy Air | 83.9% | 84.4% | 0.55% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
| 3. PHX → LAXPhoenix to Los Angeles | American Airlines | 81.3% | 81.7% | 0.54% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 4. PHX → LAXPhoenix to Los Angeles | Frontier Airlines | 81.0% | 82.0% | 1.20% | 5am–8am, Sat | — |
| 5. PHX → ONTPhoenix to Ontario | American Airlines | 79.2% | 79.9% | 0.84% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
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 35 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am481 flights92.7%
- 8am–11am698 flights88.4%
- 11am–2pm427 flights79.0%
- 2pm–5pm776 flights80.6%
- 5pm–8pm510 flights66.4%
- 8pm–5am255 flights57.3%
Scale runs 50% to 100%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 57.3% on time, against 92.7% for the 5am–8am 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 776 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter PHX to BUR 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 PHX to BUR, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 92.7% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 57.3%, a wide gap of 35.4 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am92.7%
- 8–11am88.4%
- 11am–2pm79.0%
- 2–5pm80.6%
- 5–8pm66.4%
- 8pm–5am57.3%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 15 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 October, when the on-time rate falls to 71.2%. January is the strongest month at 85.8%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 15 points. March was the busiest month here, with 288 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.9%, a spread of 12 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 38,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 38,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. The split is drawn from 37,501 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 14,000 of the 38,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.70%, 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 actually costs
6.3% 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 about 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 83.0% on time across 3,118 flights, 3 points above 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 3,147 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 BUR 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 85.8% on time and October 71.2%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of October before you think about anything else. 3,112 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
PHX to BUR questions
How often is PHX to BUR delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.2% of the 3,147 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on PHX to BUR?
Envoy Air leads at 84.4% on time across 365 flights. Southwest Airlines is at the other end on 79.1%, a gap of 5 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 PHX to BUR?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 92.7% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 57.3%, 35 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 October delays on PHX to BUR?
October is the weakest month at 71.2% on time, compared with 85.8% in January. Across the year that is 15 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
- BUR to PHX — the return legseparate record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- Hollywood Burbank (BUR) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on PHX to BUR84.4%
- SkyWest Airlines on PHX to BUR79.8%
- Southwest Airlines on PHX to BUR79.1%
- PHX to DEN, a related route76.7%
- LAS to BUR, a related route78.9%
- PHX to LAX, a related route82.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record84.4%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record79.8%
- Southwest Airlines on-time record79.1%
- 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. PHX to BUR and BUR to PHX 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.