Carrier route record
AAPSP→PHX
American Airlines · Palm Springs to Phoenix
- 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 PSP to PHX lands a B+, 2 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 close to two hours on average. That rests on 707 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on PSP to PHX from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 700 completed flights
Avg delay
102 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.85%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.8%
Every carrier on PSP to PHX, 1,439 flights
These figures cover 707 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.7% 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 PSP to PHX
American flew 707 of the 1,439 flights on PSP to PHX, about 49% of it. Its 79.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 87.5% to American at 79.7%. 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 | 87.5% | 35 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 684 | 81.5% | 120 min | 1.02% | B |
| American Airlines (this page) | 707 | 79.7% | 102 min | 0.85% | B+ |
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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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am39 flights84.6%
- 11am–2pm326 flights80.2%
- 2pm–5pm62 flights73.3%
- 5pm–8pm280 flights79.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 84.6% of the time, against 73.3% for the afternoon window. That is 11 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 326 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on PSP to PHX through the year
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 69.6%. August is the strongest month at 86.0%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 16 points. January was the busiest month here, with 100 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 84.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 72.0%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on PSP to PHX runs when it is late
American on PSP to PHX often beats the schedule: 255 of 700 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 142 late arrivals split 38 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 68 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early255 flights36.4%
- Within 15 min303 flights43.3%
- 15–29 min late38 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late36 flights5.1%
- 1–2 hours late39 flights5.6%
- 2+ hours late29 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 700 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 144 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 17 made it up before arrival. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on PSP to PHX
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 January 2026, 22 hours 37 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 January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 January 2026 | 22 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 June 2026 | 20 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 October 2025 | 18 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 13 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 5 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 56 to one. The split is drawn from 14,416 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,474 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.
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
9.7% 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 runs 80.2% 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 PSP to PHX
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 79.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 700 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.