OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Phoenix to Pittsburgh

1,813 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PHX–PIT arrive on time 77% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate77%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.3%of scheduled flights

based on 678 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • American Airlines
    On-time78%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights313
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights365

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline40%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)5%
  • Late aircraft55%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly PHX → PIT

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 92% on time.

  • Mornings92% on time · p90 10 min · 163 flights · limited
  • Middays79% on time · p90 30 min · 443 flights
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 40 min · 1,251 flights
  • Evenings71% on time · p90 45 min · 128 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 85% on time.

  • Saturdays85% on time · p90 30 min · 381 flights
  • Wednesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 260 flights
  • Tuesdays77% on time · p90 35 min · 259 flights
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 40 min · 271 flights
  • Sundays75% on time · p90 50 min · 293 flights
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 55 min · 267 flights
  • Fridays70% on time · p90 40 min · 263 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.