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Route Reliability

Phoenix → Little Rock

PHXLIT · 1,136 miles · Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport

86
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
81%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
0.8%
Cancelled
246
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • American Airlines81% on time · 241 flights
  • Southwest Airlines60% on time · 5 flights

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

What the data says

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

PHX–LIT flights arrived on time 91% of the time on Tuesdays and just 71% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon81%(36 flights)
  • Tue91%(34 flights)
  • Wed91%(34 flights)
  • Thu74%(34 flights)
  • Fri79%(33 flights)
  • Sat80%(39 flights)
  • Sun71%(34 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 12–3 AM(3 flights)
  • 12–3 PM(6 flights)
  • 3–6 PM82%(235 flights)
On-time trend by month
77%
May

Oct 81% → May 77% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
October 202581%26
November 202572%32
December 202571%35
January 202680%30
February 202693%28
March 202687%31
April 202687%30
May 202677%31

Based on 246 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.