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Route Reliability

Long Beach → Phoenix

LGB–PHX · 355 miles · Long Beach Airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

89
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
83%
Arrive within 15 minutes
3 min
Average arrival delay
0.5%
Cancelled
1,536
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 83% of the time across 1,536 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

LGB–PHX flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 75% between 6–9 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

LGB–PHX flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Wednesdays. On Fridays: 76%.

Recent months have been rougher.

LGB–PHX flights arrived on time 78% 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
  • Mon80%(217 flights)
  • Tue85%(211 flights)
  • Wed88%(207 flights)
  • Thu85%(215 flights)
  • Fri76%(217 flights)
  • Sat87%(203 flights)
  • Sun83%(257 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM93%(377 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM86%(315 flights)
  • 12–3 PM80%(260 flights)
  • 3–6 PM77%(410 flights)
  • 6–9 PM75%(165 flights)
On-time trend by month
77%
May

Jun 86% → May 77% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202586%124
July 202589%126
August 202589%123
September 202588%118
October 202587%127
November 202568%133
December 202580%137
January 202691%136
February 202690%131
March 202684%130
April 202672%120
May 202677%122

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Based on 1,536 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.