Southwest Airlines PHX to LAX on-time performance
Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Phoenix to Los Angeles · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
On-time arrivals
71%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.4%
8 flights
Avg arrival delay
15 min
47 min when late
Rank on route
#7 of 7
route average 82% on time
Key facts
- Southwest Airlines flights on PHX to LAX arrived on time 71% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
- 0.4% were cancelled, and 6% arrived an hour or more late.
- That ranks #7 of 7 airlines on this route, which averaged 82% on time overall.
- The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (50%).
On-time trend by month
Why this airline's flights were late
- Late-arriving aircraft50%
- Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)39%
- Air traffic control & airport congestion8%
- Extreme weather2%
- Security1%
Other airlines on PHX to LAX
- SkyWest Airlines90% on time · 8 min avg delay
- American Airlines81% on time · 13 min avg delay
- Frontier Airlines83% on time · 15 min avg delay
- United Airlines87% on time · 12 min avg delay
- Delta Air Lines94% on time · 10 min avg delay
- Envoy Air100% on time · 1 min avg delay
Full PHX to LAX comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →
1,983 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 8 cancelled, 0 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.