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Southwest Airlines SFO to PHX on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
60%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.6%
6 flights
Avg arrival delay
24 min
57 min when late
Rank on route
#5 of 5
route average 74% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on SFO to PHX arrived on time 60% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.6% were cancelled, and 12% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #5 of 5 airlines on this route, which averaged 74% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (60%).

On-time trend by month

20%60%100%July 2025: 63.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 73.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 64.4% on time, 1.1% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 64.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 63.2% on time, 3.3% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 53.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 84.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 67.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 66.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 47.2% on time, 1.1% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 38.0% on time, 1.1% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 45.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 54.5% 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 aircraft60%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)32%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion8%
  • Extreme weather0%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on SFO to PHX

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

1,080 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 6 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.