Carrier route record
AAPHX→OKC
American Airlines · Phoenix to Oklahoma City
- Flights
- 130
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 130 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 843 at 76.8% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, American's PHX to OKC record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 126 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.08%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.6%
Every carrier on PHX to OKC, 1,860 flights
These figures cover 130 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
American against every carrier on PHX to OKC
American flew 130 of the 1,860 flights on PHX to OKC, about 7% of it. Its 85.7% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.6%. 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 74.9%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 2 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 Airthin sample | 1 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 130 | 85.7% | 64 min | 3.08% | A− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 843 | 76.8% | 75 min | 0.59% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 886 | 74.9% | 49 min | 0.90% | C+ |
No carrier stands out. SkyWest tops the table at 76.8%, 2 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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 130 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am36 flights87.9%
- 11am–2pm80 flights83.5%
- 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 83.5% for 11am–2pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 80 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—
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 85.7% on time across 130 flights.
Split by quarter, American on PHX to OKC logged 33 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 92 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 5 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 85.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 75% of the 1,159 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.
- 75%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
75% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,159 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 75 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,159 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 3.08%, against 1.81% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 86.5% on time across 130 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. 130 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 3.08% 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. 126 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to OKC, every carrier
- American on OKC to PHX, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on PHX to OKC76.8%
- Southwest Airlines on PHX to OKC74.9%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.