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American Airlines PHX to LAX on-time performance

American Airlines nonstop flights from Phoenix to Los Angeles · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
81%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.5%
11 flights
Avg arrival delay
13 min
63 min when late
Rank on route
#6 of 7
route average 82% on time

Key facts

  • American Airlines flights on PHX to LAX arrived on time 81% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.5% were cancelled, and 6% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #6 of 7 airlines on this route, which averaged 82% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (59%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 73.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 73.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 80.8% on time, 3.1% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 81.1% on time, 0.6% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 78.3% on time, 0.5% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 82.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 77.0% on time, 2.4% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 86.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 91.2% on time, 0.5% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 89.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 86.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 76.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 66.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft59%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)29%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion10%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on PHX to LAX

Full PHX to LAX comparison →
American Airlines on-time record across all routes →

2,049 American Airlines flights tracked on this route; 11 cancelled, 2 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.