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Route Reliability

Indianapolis → Phoenix

INDPHX · 1,489 miles · Indianapolis International Airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.5%
Cancelled
1,533
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

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

  1. 1.American Airlines83%624 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines77%904 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (5 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

IND–PHX flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 59% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

IND–PHX flights arrived on time 84% of the time on Fridays. On Sundays: 74%.

American Airlines has a slight edge here.

American Airlines arrived on time 83% of the time on this route; Southwest Airlines managed 77%.

Ticking up lately.

IND–PHX flights arrived on time 83% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 77% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon76%(224 flights)
  • Tue81%(197 flights)
  • Wed80%(200 flights)
  • Thu81%(231 flights)
  • Fri84%(221 flights)
  • Sat82%(213 flights)
  • Sun74%(238 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM92%(171 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(533 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM90%(39 flights)
  • 12–3 PM76%(115 flights)
  • 3–6 PM75%(172 flights)
  • 6–9 PM65%(462 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM59%(32 flights)
On-time trend by month
85%
May

Jun 74% → May 85% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202574%126
July 202576%125
August 202580%103
September 202584%97
October 202580%141
November 202580%126
December 202567%127
January 202686%116
February 202677%115
March 202680%164
April 202685%142
May 202685%142

Based on 1,533 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.