Route profile
ABQ→PHX
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Albuquerque to Phoenix, 328 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 81% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 10,123 flights. How this is calculated
ABQ → PHX arrives on time 82.7% of the time; the return trip, PHX → ABQ, arrives on time 80.8% of the time.
ABQ → PHX spends 22.9 minutes on the ground on a 328-mile trip: 16.4 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at ABQ and 6.5 minutes from touchdown to gate at PHX.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
This route holds up about the same all year, a steadier seasonal pattern than 96% of 3,357 comparable routes.
87.7% on time in its best month (February) against 78.5% in its worst (June).
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 3,357 in the comparison.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
33 min late
against a median of 6 min early
Percentiles over 10,123 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at PHX after arriving from ABQ.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 34% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 17% | High risk |
| 60 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 5.4% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 3.1% | Low risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 0.37% of the time and diverts 0.08% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 10,078 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 33 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 10,123 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
ABQ → PHX flights departing 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 89.3% of the time, against 58.7% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 30.6 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 92.0% on time from 1,563 flights
- 7 AM: 92.6% on time from 433 flights
- 8 AM: 77.6% on time from 636 flights
- 9 AM: 87.8% on time from 231 flights
- 10 AM: 91.0% on time from 435 flights
- 11 AM: 88.9% on time from 890 flights
- 12 PM: 88.1% on time from 1,000 flights
- 1 PM: 87.8% on time from 404 flights
- 2 PM: 77.5% on time from 341 flights
- 3 PM: 83.2% on time from 1,160 flights
- 4 PM: 77.8% on time from 353 flights
- 5 PM: 69.4% on time from 341 flights
- 6 PM: 69.4% on time from 790 flights
- 7 PM: 76.1% on time from 869 flights
- 8 PM: 66.9% on time from 445 flights
- 9 PM: 57.4% on time from 149 flights
- 10 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why ABQ → PHX runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for ABQ → PHX. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on ABQ → PHX, at 52.9%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 9 AM–12 PM departures arrived on time 89.3% of the time and 9 PM–5 AM departures 58.7%.
How this route holds up in bad weather
July 2023 – July 2026
The harder-hit end is PHX, where the flight lands. Its figure counts departures from PHX, so it says more about how that airport copes than about this route. Bad weather cancels 3.9 times the normal rate at PHX against 2.2 times at ABQ. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: ABQ 1.7% against 0.8%, PHX 2.5% against 0.6%. Flights that did leave PHX in bad weather arrived on time 53.7% of the time, against 80.6% in normal hours.
Bad weather and normal hours at the airports
Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026| Departures from | ABQ | PHX |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelled in bad weather | 1.7% | 2.5% |
| Cancelled in normal hours | 0.8% | 0.6% |
| Arrived on time, bad weather | 70.2% | 53.7% |
| Arrived on time, normal hours | 84.0% | 80.6% |
| Departures in bad weather | 4,134 | 6,215 |
These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from ABQ and PHX, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad.
Weather source and limits. In full: ABQ, PHX, What Weather Costs Each Airport, Who Cancels More When the Weather Turns, Airports That Change Places When Weather Turns.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 5,596 | 81.0% | 0.36% | -5 min | 5.3% |
| American Airlines | 1,968 | 82.3% | 0.46% | -9 min | 7.8% |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,781 | 86.9% | 0.39% | -8 min | 4.2% |
| Envoy Air | 778 | 85.7% | 0.13% | -7 min | 2.8% |
Southwest Airlines flew 55.3% of the 10,123 flights listed.
SkyWest Airlines arrived on time 5.9 percentage points more often than Southwest Airlines on this route.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 7.5 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 83.3%
- Feb: 87.7%
- Mar: 81.5%
- Apr: 81.2%
- May: 81.8%
- Jun: 78.5%
- Jul: 79.2%
- Aug: 83.2%
- Sep: 85.7%
- Oct: 82.9%
- Nov: 82.6%
- Dec: 85.5%
June is historically the weakest month and February the strongest, a spread of 9.2 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 81.7% from 255 flights
- August 2023: 82.2% from 257 flights
- September 2023: 86.9% from 259 flights
- October 2023: 82.7% from 271 flights
- November 2023: 81.9% from 283 flights
- December 2023: 85.8% from 267 flights
- January 2024: 78.0% from 229 flights
- February 2024: 85.9% from 220 flights
- March 2024: 78.3% from 263 flights
- April 2024: 80.1% from 258 flights
- May 2024: 80.4% from 281 flights
- June 2024: 82.8% from 257 flights
- July 2024: 77.7% from 264 flights
- August 2024: 81.7% from 285 flights
- September 2024: 86.4% from 265 flights
- October 2024: 87.4% from 319 flights
- November 2024: 86.1% from 302 flights
- December 2024: 86.0% from 300 flights
- January 2025: 85.8% from 282 flights
- February 2025: 89.2% from 268 flights
- March 2025: 81.2% from 313 flights
- April 2025: 82.7% from 306 flights
- May 2025: 82.9% from 290 flights
- June 2025: 78.4% from 260 flights
- July 2025: 82.0% from 262 flights
- August 2025: 85.9% from 248 flights
- September 2025: 83.7% from 236 flights
- October 2025: 78.5% from 308 flights
- November 2025: 79.6% from 299 flights
- December 2025: 85.0% from 320 flights
- January 2026: 85.1% from 293 flights
- February 2026: 87.6% from 251 flights
- March 2026: 84.6% from 306 flights
- April 2026: 80.6% from 280 flights
- May 2026: 82.2% from 270 flights
- June 2026: 74.2% from 244 flights
- July 2026: 75.2% from 252 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 81.9% against 84.2% in the 12 months before — declining by 2.3 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 10,123 ABQ → PHX flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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