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Route Reliability

St. Louis → Phoenix

STLPHX · 1,262 miles · St. Louis Lambert International Airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

82
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
77%
Arrive within 15 minutes
11 min
Average arrival delay
0.4%
Cancelled
2,287
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%633 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines75%1,601 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (53 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

STL–PHX flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 54% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Friday comes out ahead.

A small edge: 80% on time on Fridays against 73% on Sundays.

American Airlines runs this route best.

American Airlines arrived on time 83% of the time on this route; Southwest Airlines managed 75%.

Slipping a little lately.

STL–PHX flights arrived on time 77% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 81% 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%(351 flights)
  • Tue79%(320 flights)
  • Wed79%(315 flights)
  • Thu77%(329 flights)
  • Fri80%(348 flights)
  • Sat78%(253 flights)
  • Sun73%(357 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM96%(213 flights)
  • 6–9 AM87%(548 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM84%(241 flights)
  • 12–3 PM78%(486 flights)
  • 3–6 PM68%(231 flights)
  • 6–9 PM63%(389 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM54%(165 flights)
On-time trend by month
74%
May

Jun 74% → May 74% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202574%168
July 202577%166
August 202576%165
September 202578%156
October 202576%199
November 202570%186
December 202573%206
January 202686%194
February 202683%193
March 202679%232
April 202680%207
May 202674%201

Based on 2,287 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.