Route profile
PHX→ABQ
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Phoenix to Albuquerque, 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 79% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 10,107 flights. How this is calculated
PHX → ABQ arrives on time 80.8% of the time; the return trip, ABQ → PHX, arrives on time 82.7% of the time.
PHX → ABQ spends 20.6 minutes on the ground on a 328-mile trip: 14.8 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at PHX and 5.8 minutes from touchdown to gate at ABQ.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
36 min late
against a median of 5 min early
Percentiles over 10,107 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at ABQ after arriving from PHX.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 35% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 19% | High risk |
| 60 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 5.3% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 3.0% | 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 0.33% of the time and diverts 0.03% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 10,071 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 36 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 10,107 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
PHX → ABQ flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 92.1% of the time, against 71.0% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 21.1 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 95.9% on time from 145 flights
- 7 AM: 96.1% on time from 285 flights
- 8 AM: 89.7% on time from 907 flights
- 9 AM: 89.1% on time from 926 flights
- 10 AM: 88.9% on time from 319 flights
- 11 AM: 82.9% on time from 461 flights
- 12 PM: 86.8% on time from 879 flights
- 1 PM: 84.9% on time from 690 flights
- 2 PM: 81.3% on time from 386 flights
- 3 PM: 72.6% on time from 700 flights
- 4 PM: 77.6% on time from 964 flights
- 5 PM: 74.9% on time from 418 flights
- 6 PM: 68.0% on time from 506 flights
- 7 PM: 75.2% on time from 606 flights
- 8 PM: 78.0% on time from 541 flights
- 9 PM: 69.7% on time from 858 flights
- 10 PM: 70.8% on time from 390 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why PHX → ABQ 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 PHX → ABQ. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on PHX → ABQ, at 51.5%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 92.1% of the time and 9 PM–5 AM departures 71.0%.
How this route holds up in bad weather
July 2023 – July 2026
The harder-hit end is the one the flight leaves from, where a cancellation keeps it from departing at all. Bad weather cancels 3.9 times the normal rate at PHX against 2.2 times at ABQ. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: PHX 2.5% against 0.6%, ABQ 1.7% against 0.8%. 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 | PHX | ABQ |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelled in bad weather | 2.5% | 1.7% |
| Cancelled in normal hours | 0.6% | 0.8% |
| Arrived on time, bad weather | 53.7% | 70.2% |
| Arrived on time, normal hours | 80.6% | 84.0% |
| Departures in bad weather | 6,215 | 4,134 |
These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from PHX and ABQ, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad.
Weather source and limits. In full: PHX, ABQ, 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 | 5,579 | 78.6% | 0.34% | -4 min | 5.3% |
| American Airlines | 1,971 | 80.0% | 0.41% | -6 min | 8.3% |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,780 | 86.7% | 0.28% | -7 min | 3.7% |
| Envoy Air | 777 | 84.8% | 0.13% | -5 min | 3.4% |
Southwest Airlines flew 55.2% of the 10,107 flights listed.
SkyWest Airlines arrived on time 8.1 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 Sunday the least, a gap of 6.1 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 84.2%
- Feb: 87.6%
- Mar: 79.9%
- Apr: 81.6%
- May: 78.6%
- Jun: 73.3%
- Jul: 73.7%
- Aug: 77.9%
- Sep: 85.0%
- Oct: 78.8%
- Nov: 86.7%
- Dec: 83.9%
June is historically the weakest month and February the strongest, a spread of 14.3 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 71.8% from 255 flights
- August 2023: 75.8% from 258 flights
- September 2023: 82.7% from 260 flights
- October 2023: 77.2% from 268 flights
- November 2023: 87.6% from 283 flights
- December 2023: 85.6% from 266 flights
- January 2024: 79.3% from 226 flights
- February 2024: 82.9% from 216 flights
- March 2024: 76.5% from 261 flights
- April 2024: 84.2% from 261 flights
- May 2024: 84.2% from 285 flights
- June 2024: 79.5% from 258 flights
- July 2024: 79.2% from 264 flights
- August 2024: 76.9% from 277 flights
- September 2024: 86.4% from 265 flights
- October 2024: 82.6% from 322 flights
- November 2024: 92.7% from 302 flights
- December 2024: 86.0% from 299 flights
- January 2025: 88.7% from 282 flights
- February 2025: 89.2% from 268 flights
- March 2025: 80.5% from 313 flights
- April 2025: 84.0% from 307 flights
- May 2025: 76.8% from 291 flights
- June 2025: 77.9% from 260 flights
- July 2025: 75.6% from 262 flights
- August 2025: 81.3% from 247 flights
- September 2025: 85.8% from 236 flights
- October 2025: 76.1% from 306 flights
- November 2025: 79.7% from 298 flights
- December 2025: 80.7% from 321 flights
- January 2026: 83.7% from 294 flights
- February 2026: 90.0% from 251 flights
- March 2026: 82.2% from 305 flights
- April 2026: 76.3% from 280 flights
- May 2026: 74.5% from 271 flights
- June 2026: 61.7% from 240 flights
- July 2026: 67.9% from 249 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 78.5% against 83.2% in the 12 months before — declining by 4.7 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 10,107 PHX → ABQ 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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