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Route Reliability

Burbank → Phoenix

BURPHX · 369 miles · Hollywood Burbank Airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

87
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
84%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
1.2%
Cancelled
3,119
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.Southwest Airlines86%2,177 flights
  2. 2.American Airlines81%942 flights

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

BUR–PHX flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 76% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

BUR–PHX flights arrived on time 90% of the time on Tuesdays. On Sundays: 78%.

Southwest Airlines has a slight edge here.

Southwest Airlines arrived on time 86% of the time on this route; American Airlines managed 81%.

Slipping a little lately.

BUR–PHX flights arrived on time 84% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 87% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon85%(470 flights)
  • Tue90%(400 flights)
  • Wed89%(395 flights)
  • Thu81%(495 flights)
  • Fri82%(481 flights)
  • Sat87%(350 flights)
  • Sun78%(486 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM94%(482 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM90%(720 flights)
  • 12–3 PM77%(509 flights)
  • 3–6 PM85%(692 flights)
  • 6–9 PM76%(674 flights)
On-time trend by month
82%
May

Jun 88% → May 82% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202588%255
July 202589%250
August 202588%245
September 202588%231
October 202577%272
November 202572%248
December 202582%262
January 202689%240
February 202689%229
March 202683%287
April 202685%276
May 202682%282

Based on 3,119 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.