Skip to content
WanderNerd
Check a flight

Route Reliability

Oakland → Phoenix

OAK–PHX · 646 miles · Oakland International Airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
0.2%
Cancelled
1,953
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines79% on time · 1,952 flights
  • Alaska Airlines100% on time · 1 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

OAK–PHX flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 62% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Mondays have been rough.

OAK–PHX flights arrived on time 87% of the time on Saturdays and just 71% on Mondays. That gap is worth planning around.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 1,953 scheduled flights, only 0.2% were cancelled.

Slipping a little lately.

OAK–PHX flights arrived on time 78% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 83% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon71%(297 flights)
  • Tue84%(257 flights)
  • Wed83%(257 flights)
  • Thu76%(292 flights)
  • Fri75%(296 flights)
  • Sat87%(252 flights)
  • Sun77%(294 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM96%(242 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(283 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM85%(275 flights)
  • 12–3 PM76%(349 flights)
  • 3–6 PM65%(298 flights)
  • 6–9 PM72%(420 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM62%(78 flights)
On-time trend by month
73%
May

Jun 73% → May 73% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202573%177
July 202575%179
August 202585%143
September 202580%132
October 202574%170
November 202578%156
December 202570%165
January 202689%151
February 202690%148
March 202682%175
April 202678%170
May 202673%179

Same trip, other airports

Keep nerding

Based on 1,953 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.