Carrier route record

AAPHX→EWR

American Airlines · Phoenix to Newark

Flights: 995
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 40%
Carriers: 2

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

American on PHX to EWR lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 995 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate American on PHX to EWR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

76.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 971 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.11%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.5%

Every carrier on PHX to EWR, 2,489 flights

These figures cover 995 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

American against every carrier on PHX to EWR

American flew 995 of the 2,489 flights on PHX to EWR, about 40% of it. Its 76.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 81.4% to American at 76.7%.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on PHX to EWR
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	1,494	81.4%	78 min	1.81%	B
American Airlines (this page)	995	76.7%	67 min	2.11%	B

Flight by flight

American flight numbers on PHX to EWR

AA 196715:1569.9% · 364 flights

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 17 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–8am—
8am–11am364 flights76.3%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm364 flights69.9%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am267 flights86.6%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The overnight block holds up unusually well at 86.6% on time across 267 flights. Red-eyes fly into empty airspace and empty gates, and they are the first rotation of the aircraft's day rather than the last. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 364 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on PHX to EWR through the year

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

June is the worst month at 66.7% on time, 19 points below April, the best at 86.0%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.

Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 80.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.6%. 7 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 15,000 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
Carrier
26%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
0%

39% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 5,876 minutes out of 15,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 15,231 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 2.11% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

8.0% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 2,133 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The return leg runs 78.5% on time across 996 flights, within 2 points 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. 995 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 PHX to EWR

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 995 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 76.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 971 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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