Route profile
PHX→BUR
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Phoenix to Burbank, 369 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 9,835 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
PHX → BUR arrives on time 81.4% of the time; the return trip, BUR → PHX, arrives on time 85.3% of the time, a 3.9-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
PHX → BUR spends 16.9 minutes on the ground on a 369-mile trip: 13.4 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at PHX and 3.4 minutes from touchdown to gate at BUR.
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 100% of 3,357 comparable routes.
84.3% on time in its best month (January) against 79.3% in its worst (May).
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.
What sets this route apart
Where PHX to BUR differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
PHX to BUR is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 2 PM: 83.9% arrive on time, 7.9 points ahead of the 76.0% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 9.3 points.
PHX to BUR struggles most at 6 PM: 63.9% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 5.6 points behind the 69.5% on routes of similar length at the same hour. Against all other routes the gap is 4.7 points.
PHX to BUR holds up on Fridays better than routes of similar length do: 80.1% on time to their 76.0%, a 4.1 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 3.9 points.
July is kinder to PHX to BUR than to routes of similar length: 80.7% on time against 71.3%, 9.4 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 11 points.
American Airlines does better on PHX to BUR than on its routes of similar length: 80.4% on time here, 75.9% there, 4.5 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 5.3 points.
PHX to BUR against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 2 PM departures | 83.9% | routes of similar length | 76.0% | +7.9 pts | 981 here, 79,257 there |
| Hour: 6 PM departures | 63.9% | routes of similar length | 69.5% | −5.6 pts | 504 here, 94,308 there |
| Weekday: Friday | 80.1% | routes of similar length | 76.0% | +4.1 pts | 1,506 here, 227,811 there |
| Month: July | 80.7% | routes of similar length | 71.3% | +9.4 pts | 1,078 here, 164,985 there |
| Airline: American Airlines | 80.4% | routes of similar length | 75.9% | +4.5 pts | 862 here, 155,606 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 369 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
Why PHX → BUR flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
PHX → BUR cancelled 59 of 9,835 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 167. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 62.7% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 266 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 59 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
37 cancellations, 62.7% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
16 cancellations, 27.1% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
6 cancellations, 10.2% of the total.
A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.
0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.
Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
59 coded cancellations were recorded on PHX → BUR; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
35 min late
against a median of 6 min early
Percentiles over 9,835 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at BUR after arriving from PHX.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 34% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 18% | High risk |
| 60 min | 12% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 5.4% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 2.9% | 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 0.60% of the time and diverts 0.40% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 9,737 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 35 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 9,835 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
PHX → BUR flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 92.2% of the time, against 66.8% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 25.4 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 95.0% on time from 289 flights
- 7 AM: 93.2% on time from 1,189 flights
- 8 AM: 90.2% on time from 1,057 flights
- 9 AM: 90.7% on time from 559 flights
- 10 AM: 87.9% on time from 482 flights
- 11 AM: 79.1% on time from 460 flights
- 12 PM: 82.1% on time from 489 flights
- 1 PM: 77.6% on time from 434 flights
- 2 PM: 83.9% on time from 985 flights
- 3 PM: 77.6% on time from 543 flights
- 4 PM: 77.9% on time from 747 flights
- 5 PM: 75.1% on time from 861 flights
- 6 PM: 63.9% on time from 507 flights
- 7 PM: 74.5% on time from 372 flights
- 8 PM: 65.1% on time from 788 flights
- 9 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why PHX → BUR 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 → BUR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on PHX → BUR, at 49.6%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 92.2% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 66.8%.
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 | 6,791 | 81.1% | 0.71% | -6 min | 4.9% |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,570 | 81.5% | 0.51% | -5 min | 6.3% |
| American Airlines | 868 | 80.4% | 0.12% | -6 min | 9.5% |
| Envoy Air | 532 | 86.8% | 0.38% | -7 min | 3.3% |
Southwest Airlines flew 69.6% of the 9,761 flights listed.
Envoy Air arrived on time 6.4 percentage points more often than American Airlines on this route.
Other ways to fly Phoenix to Los Angeles
Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 9.0 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 84.3%
- Feb: 83.7%
- Mar: 79.8%
- Apr: 81.8%
- May: 79.3%
- Jun: 80.1%
- Jul: 80.7%
- Aug: 82.3%
- Sep: 84.0%
- Oct: 80.1%
- Nov: 81.8%
- Dec: 80.6%
May is historically the weakest month and January the strongest, a spread of 5.0 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 84.7% from 289 flights
- August 2023: 80.6% from 267 flights
- September 2023: 85.9% from 270 flights
- October 2023: 85.0% from 260 flights
- November 2023: 85.5% from 284 flights
- December 2023: 83.5% from 279 flights
- January 2024: 79.9% from 255 flights
- February 2024: 83.1% from 239 flights
- March 2024: 84.4% from 267 flights
- April 2024: 84.1% from 254 flights
- May 2024: 76.2% from 262 flights
- June 2024: 80.6% from 264 flights
- July 2024: 78.9% from 268 flights
- August 2024: 83.1% from 255 flights
- September 2024: 83.1% from 243 flights
- October 2024: 84.2% from 282 flights
- November 2024: 84.5% from 274 flights
- December 2024: 81.8% from 296 flights
- January 2025: 87.4% from 258 flights
- February 2025: 86.3% from 245 flights
- March 2025: 75.7% from 309 flights
- April 2025: 76.7% from 277 flights
- May 2025: 77.5% from 277 flights
- June 2025: 81.7% from 259 flights
- July 2025: 80.9% from 255 flights
- August 2025: 83.1% from 249 flights
- September 2025: 82.6% from 236 flights
- October 2025: 71.2% from 273 flights
- November 2025: 74.6% from 258 flights
- December 2025: 76.1% from 267 flights
- January 2026: 85.8% from 240 flights
- February 2026: 81.7% from 233 flights
- March 2026: 80.1% from 288 flights
- April 2026: 84.8% from 276 flights
- May 2026: 83.7% from 284 flights
- June 2026: 78.0% from 268 flights
- July 2026: 78.0% from 275 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 79.9% against 81.8% in the 12 months before — declining by 1.9 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 9,835 PHX → BUR 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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