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Southwest Airlines SEA to PHX on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
67%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.8%
8 flights
Avg arrival delay
18 min
49 min when late
Rank on route
#7 of 7
route average 79% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on SEA to PHX arrived on time 67% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.8% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #7 of 7 airlines on this route, which averaged 79% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (53%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 70.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 66.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 75.0% on time, 1.2% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 70.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 67.6% on time, 5.1% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 70.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 86.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 84.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 58.0% on time, 1.1% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 62.9% on time, 1.1% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 73.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 53.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 54.3% 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 aircraft53%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)32%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion14%
  • Security1%
  • Extreme weather0%

Other airlines on SEA to PHX

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

1,039 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 8 cancelled, 4 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.