Carrier route record
AAPHX→OMA
American Airlines · Phoenix to Omaha
- Flights
- 265
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on PHX to OMA sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 265 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate American on PHX to OMA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.38%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
77.4%
Every carrier on PHX to OMA, 2,006 flights
These figures cover 265 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 OMA
American flew 265 of the 2,006 flights on PHX to OMA, about 13% of it. Its 74.8% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 100.0% to Southwest at 74.5%. Three 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 3 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 252 | 86.5% | 78 min | 0.40% | A+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 272 | 84.1% | 47 min | 0.37% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 265 | 74.8% | 60 min | 0.38% | C+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,214 | 74.5% | 53 min | 0.66% | C+ |
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 13 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–11am49 flights77.6%
- 11am–2pm73 flights76.4%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm103 flights69.3%
- 8pm–5am40 flights82.5%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 82.5% on time. The full set of windows spans 13 points.
Across the year
American on PHX to OMA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202571 flights69.6%
- Oct–Dec 202525 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights74.2%
- Apr–Jun 202680 flights82.3%
Scale runs 60% 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 74.8% on time across 265 flights.
American on PHX to OMA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 82.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 69.6%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 88 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 64.1%. 19 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 3,965 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.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
60% 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 3,965 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 60 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 3,965 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.38%, below the national 1.81% 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
8.4% 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.
The 1,037 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.4% on time across 266 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 265 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 OMA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 265 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 74.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 262 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to OMA, every carrier
- American on OMA to PHX, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on PHX to OMA86.5%
- Envoy Air on PHX to OMA84.1%
- Southwest Airlines on PHX to OMA74.5%
- 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 7.04 million flight records
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.