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Southwest Airlines PHX to SFO on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
60%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.4%
4 flights
Avg arrival delay
24 min
57 min when late
Rank on route
#6 of 6
route average 66% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on PHX to SFO arrived on time 60% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.4% were cancelled, and 12% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #6 of 6 airlines on this route, which averaged 66% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was air traffic control & airport congestion (37%).

On-time trend by month

20%60%100%July 2025: 53.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 73.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 70.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 59.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 66.7% on time, 1.1% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 57.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 79.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 70.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 65.2% on time, 1.1% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 53.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 38.0% on time, 1.1% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 36.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 48.9% on time, 1.1% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Air traffic control & airport congestion37%
  • Late-arriving aircraft31%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)29%
  • Extreme weather2%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on PHX to SFO

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

1,080 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 4 cancelled, 1 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.