PHX Phoenix

How deep the PHX board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from PHX. This reads the same 172 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 78of the 172 destinations are flown by one airline
• 59destinations run less than once a day
• 47destinations have four or more departures a day
• 57%of the destinations name American Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at PHX

65 airlines appear on the PHX board and they do not hold it evenly. American Airlines is on 98 of the 172 destinations, 57 per cent of them, and on 21 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 530 of the 603.4 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Southwest Airlines on 53 destinations. 32 of the 65 airlines at PHX appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 98 of the 172 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a PHX sector is usually another American Airlines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for PHX, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the PHX board is daily

Of the 172 destinations, 113 are flown at least once a day and 59 are not, 25 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the PHX board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: PHX to Yakima (YKM) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 109.3 of the 603.4 departures a day, 18.1 per cent of the whole board. The other 167 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at PHX usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bangor BGR	the United States	OMD	1	3,882	plan this
Bedford BED	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	3,671	plan this
Blythe BLH	the United States	VECA	1	252	plan this
Dallas DAL	the United States	Flexjet	1	1,412	the pair page
Denver BJC	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	946	plan this
Edmonton YEG	Canada	WestJet	1	2,214	plan this
Fort Myers RSW	the United States	American Airlines	1	3,002	plan this
Garden City GCK	the United States	United Airlines	1	1,134	plan this
Hamilton YHM	Canada	HTT	1	2,979	plan this
Independence IDP	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,528	plan this

The ten destinations out of PHX where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 37 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from PHX

The desk holds the return direction for 65 of the 172 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into PHX runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Everett (PAE) at 2.6 out a day against 1.4 back and Cancún (CUN) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Dallas (DAL) files 7.1 a day back into PHX against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at PHX

PHX keeps America/Phoenix time, eleven hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 22:00 at PHX, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at PHX

2 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from PHX that lands inside it leaves around 04:48, on a modelled block of 10h 42m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from PHX that lands inside it leaves around 03:54, on a modelled block of 11h 06m. Those two departure times out of PHX are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where PHX turns up on the rest of this site

PHX carries two other pages on this site as well: the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the PHX transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 55 airport pair pages that start or end at PHX, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Phoenix to Denver (DEN), Phoenix to Los Angeles (LAX) and Phoenix to San Diego (SAN).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Phoenix to Taipei. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at PHX written out.

Eleven courier postings name PHX as the airport a courier here flies from: Phoenix, Tucson and Chandler.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with PHX already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 172 destinations above.