Carrier route record
AAPHX→PSP
American Airlines · Phoenix to Palm Springs
- Flights
- 707
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 49%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on PHX to PSP 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 707 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on PHX to PSP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 701 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.85%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.3%
Every carrier on PHX to PSP, 1,439 flights
These figures cover 707 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on PHX to PSP
American flew 707 of the 1,439 flights on PHX to PSP, about 49% of it. Its 80.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.4% to SkyWest at 75.8%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 48 | 85.4% | 42 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 707 | 80.2% | 72 min | 0.85% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 684 | 75.8% | 82 min | 1.17% | B |
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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 707 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am211 flights81.0%
- 11am–2pm167 flights84.1%
- 2pm–5pm115 flights80.5%
- 5pm–8pm214 flights76.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 84.1% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 76.2%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 214 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on PHX to PSP through the year
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 69.6%. February is the strongest month at 91.7%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 22 points. January was the busiest month here, with 100 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 74.5%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on PHX to PSP runs when it is late
The 139 late arrivals split 41 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 63 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early174 flights24.8%
- Within 15 min388 flights55.3%
- 15–29 min late41 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late35 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late38 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late25 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 701 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
32 of 158 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. Only 13 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on PHX to PSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 5 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 5 hours 47 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 17 March 2026 | 5 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 July 2026 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 January 2026 | 3 hours 42 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 9,972 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,972 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 9,972 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.85%, 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 costs
9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 261 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 79.7% on time across 707 flights, within half 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. 707 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 PSP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 707 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 80.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 701 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.