Carrier route record

AAPHX→OKC

American Airlines · Phoenix to Oklahoma City

Flights: 134
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 7%
Carriers: 4

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

American on PHX to OKC earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 134 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 833 at 76.3% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, American's PHX to OKC record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 130 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.99%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

75.5%

Every carrier on PHX to OKC, 1,834 flights

These figures cover 134 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

American against every carrier on PHX to OKC

American flew 134 of the 1,834 flights on PHX to OKC, about 7% of it. Its 85.4% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 100.0% to Southwest at 73.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 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.

On-time performance by carrier on PHX to OKC
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	1	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
American Airlines (this page)thin sample	134	85.4%	66 min	2.99%	A
SkyWest Airlines	833	76.3%	78 min	0.60%	B+
Southwest Airlines	866	73.1%	50 min	0.81%	C+

No carrier stands out. SkyWest tops the table at 76.3%, 3 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

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Departure window

When American runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 134 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am36 flights87.9%
11am–2pm84 flights83.1%
2pm–5pm14 flights—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 87.9% on time for the 8am–11am window against 83.1% for 11am–2pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 84 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on PHX to OKC through the year

Oct–Dec 202533 flights81.8%
Jan–Mar 202692 flights86.4%
Apr–Jun 20265 flights—
Jul–Sep 20264 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 85.4% on time across 134 flights.

Split by quarter, American on PHX to OKC logged 33 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 92 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 5 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 4 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 85.4% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late American on PHX to OKC runs when it is late

American on PHX to OKC often beats the schedule: 42 of 130 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 19 late arrivals split 4 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.

15+ min early42 flights32.3%
Within 15 min69 flights53.1%
15–29 min late4 flights3.1%
30–59 min late8 flights6.2%
1–2 hours late5 flights3.8%
2+ hours late2 flights1.5%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 130 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

4 of 20 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 3 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for American on PHX to OKC

The latest arrival of the period was on 2 December 2025, 3 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.

The latest arrivals of American on PHX to OKC in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
2 December 2025	3 hours 44 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
30 March 2026	2 hours 28 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
29 March 2026	1 hour 48 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
17 March 2026	1 hour 43 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
9 August 2026	1 hour 38 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 77% of the 1,257 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
77%
Carrier
18%
National Airspace System
5%

77% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,257 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 77 to one. The split is drawn from 1,257 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 87.9% on time here.

Cancellations run at 2.99%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.4% 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.

The 833 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.

The return leg runs 86.2% on time across 134 flights, within about 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. 134 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 OKC

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.99% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 130 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures