Carrier route record
OOPSP→PHX
SkyWest Airlines · Palm Springs to Phoenix
- 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 PSP to PHX lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly 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 684 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's PSP to PHX record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 42 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 677 completed flights
Avg delay
120 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.02%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.8%
Every carrier on PSP to PHX, 1,439 flights
These figures cover 684 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
SkyWest against every carrier on PSP to PHX
SkyWest flew 684 of the 1,439 flights on PSP to PHX, about 48% of it. Its 81.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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 (this page) | 684 | 81.5% | 120 min | 1.02% | B |
| American Airlines | 707 | 79.7% | 102 min | 0.85% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on PSP to PHX
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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–8am360 flights84.7%
- 8am–11am111 flights78.5%
- 11am–2pm38 flights92.1%
- 2pm–5pm110 flights75.2%
- 5pm–8pm65 flights73.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 92.1% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 73.0%. 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 360 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on PSP to PHX through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 90.9% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. November was the busiest month here, with 96 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 87.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 76.5%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on PSP to PHX runs when it is late
SkyWest on PSP to PHX often beats the schedule: 226 of 677 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 125 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 61 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early226 flights33.4%
- Within 15 min326 flights48.2%
- 15–29 min late34 flights5.0%
- 30–59 min late30 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late26 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late35 flights5.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 677 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 105 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 9 made it up before arrival. 29 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on PSP to PHX
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 15 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 15 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 January 2026 | 15 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 October 2025 | 12 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 April 2026 | 12 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 January 2026 | 9 hours 44 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 51% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,683 of the 15,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 14,973 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.02% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 75.8% on time across 684 flights, 6 points below 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
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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 81.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 677 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PSP to PHX, every carrier
- SkyWest on PHX to PSP, the return leg
- American Airlines on PSP to PHX79.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.