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Southwest Airlines PHX to SNA on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
79%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.5%
11 flights
Avg arrival delay
11 min
45 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 3
route average 79% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on PHX to SNA arrived on time 79% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.5% were cancelled, and 4% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 79% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (52%).

On-time trend by month

60%80%100%July 2025: 82.1% on time, 0.5% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 80.7% on time, 1.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 76.4% on time, 1.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 74.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 76.6% on time, 0.9% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 76.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 86.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 85.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 79.9% on time, 1.4% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 79.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 79.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 74.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 73.7% on time, 0.9% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft52%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)39%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion7%
  • Extreme weather2%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on PHX to SNA

2,430 Southwest 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.