Carrier route record
OOPHX→PSP
SkyWest Airlines · Phoenix to Palm Springs
- Flights
- 684
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 48%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on PHX to PSP sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 684 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest 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
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 673 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.17%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.3%
Every carrier on PHX to PSP, 1,439 flights
These figures cover 684 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on PHX to PSP
SkyWest flew 684 of the 1,439 flights on PHX to PSP, about 48% of it. Its 75.8% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last 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 | 707 | 80.2% | 72 min | 0.85% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 684 | 75.8% | 82 min | 1.17% | B |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on PHX to PSP
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am38 flights73.7%
- 8am–11am92 flights85.2%
- 11am–2pm29 flights—
- 2pm–5pm137 flights78.5%
- 5pm–8pm143 flights80.1%
- 8pm–5am245 flights66.1%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 85.2% of the time, against 66.1% for the overnight window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 245 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on PHX to PSP through the year
July is the worst month at 40.0% on time, 44 points below October, the best at 83.9%. 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. November was the busiest month here, with 96 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.6%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on PHX to PSP runs when it is late
The 163 late arrivals split 51 under half an hour, 39 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 73 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early118 flights17.5%
- Within 15 min392 flights58.2%
- 15–29 min late51 flights7.6%
- 30–59 min late39 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late44 flights6.5%
- 2+ hours late29 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 673 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
22 of 166 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 19 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on PHX to PSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 June 2026, 16 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in April 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 June 2026 | 16 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 16 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 April 2026 | 6 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 April 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 April 2026 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 13,294 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,593 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.17% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.44%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.8% 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.5% on time across 684 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. 684 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 SkyWest on PHX to PSP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 684 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 75.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 673 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.