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Southwest Airlines PHX to DEN on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Phoenix to Denver · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
73%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.6%
24 flights
Avg arrival delay
16 min
55 min when late
Rank on route
#5 of 6
route average 77% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on PHX to DEN arrived on time 73% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.6% were cancelled, and 8% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #5 of 6 airlines on this route, which averaged 77% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (44%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 62.0% on time, 2.7% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 68.5% on time, 0.3% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 77.7% on time, 0.7% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 74.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 78.6% on time, 3.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 74.6% on time, 1.2% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 81.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 77.2% on time, 0.3% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 71.1% on time, 0.5% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 79.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 69.0% on time, 0.3% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 62.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 61.0% on time, 0.3% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft44%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)28%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion25%
  • Extreme weather3%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on PHX to DEN

Full PHX to DEN comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →

3,937 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 24 cancelled, 11 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.